Racket Busters

Racket Busters

1938
Drama, Crime
1h 11m
Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to provide for his pregnant wife Nora, Martin forces Jordan to join him. As the other truckers come around Martin appears to have won. (imdb)
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Racket Busters

1938
Drama, Crime
1h 11m
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Rated 15 Feb 2012
3
22nd
The acting isn't terrible (yes, even the non-Bogart actors) and the cinematography is quite good, especially for this kind of boring, simplistic morality gangster films that Hollywood was cranking out before they discovered noir.
Rated 22 Jun 2012
41
4th
There are more than a couple Bogart movies that are well worth a watch, this is not one of them. This is as boring and uninteresting as they come.
Rated 24 Jan 2015
40
58th
Way too simply written. That ruins this Humphrey Bogart movie. A fine cast, a possibly interesting plot, a decent enough production, but besides that there is no dept and the scripts only objective is to serve the moral which comes waaaay easy! Bogart's gangster character never gets dark enough, George Brent character never gets interesting enough and Allen Jenkins character never gets funny enough. Not a bad movie. Just lacking in a few areas.
Rated 29 Aug 2017
45
30th
Falls on the forgettable side of the coin, as it gives us nothing new. Especially in the era when Warner were pulling gangster flicks galore, in comparison with their bigger titles - Public Enemy, Scarface, Little Caesar - Racket Busters pales. It's the same old known tale of the downfall of the racketeer/mafia boss/whatever. Trucks, menacing Humphrey Bogart and George Brent is all that one can remember out of this. It is very plain, bland and frankly a little boring.

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