The Racket

A deep cast of well-known actors highlights this film noir effort. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott, William Talman, Ray Collins, Don Porter and William Conrad are all familiar names, especially to film noir buffs.Ryan lifts this from an average... Full review

Entertaining film with politics, crime and corruption the main themes here.Robert Mitchum plays a dedicated, righteous policeman who heads a unit of officers. He is as honest as 24 hours in a day. He takes pride in such officers as... Full review

This film, as some other contributors have already pointed out, belongs to the gangster movie genre. This is not a film noir as IMDb and some other comments suggest. Sure, there are elements of it, but it clearly strays from... Full review

I'd never been able to get past the first couple of reels of The Racket on TV and it certainly looked like being the make-weight of Warner's new Film Noir collection, but once you get past the lunking Howard Hughes-imposed... Full review

Nick Scanlon(Robert Ryan) is a big time crime boss who is forced into partnership by a national crime syndicate that has just moved into town. Captain Thomas McQuigg(Robert Mitchum) is the goody goody police man trying to clean up the city... Full review

This film reminds me a lot of an earlier film that paired Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan (CROSSFIRE), as both have very tough and gritty plots that are excellent examples of Film Noir. However, in this film instead of a... Full review

The Racket was originally a play on Broadway which ran for 119 performances in the 1927-1928 season and was later made into a silent film by Howard Hughes. Come 1951 and the Kefauver Senate Rackets Committee hearings in full swing,... Full review

A competent crime movie, enlivened by two strong lead performances from Mitchum and Ryan. The latter has the more interesting part as the gangster who ultimately finds himself friendless when those loyal to him decide he has become too much... Full review

Amusing, inexpensive, and predictable, this 50's gangster film's highlights are the snarling confrontations between Ryan and Top Cop Robert Mitchum. Ryan's cruelties are three-dimensional, but Mitchum seems to be thinking about something offscreen when he's not in a face-off with... Full review

The Racket was based on a play by Bartlett Cormack , first filmed as a silent in 1928. The storyline was updated to include references to Estes Kefauver's Senate Crime Investigating Committee: otherwise, the plot (and much of the dialogue)... ... Full Article