Parole Racket (1937)

1937 · Feature film · 62 min · dir. Charles C. Coleman

At Last The Screen Dares To Blast America's Newest Menace Wide Open!

• Crime
• Romance

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Synopsis

Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole…

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Details

Director

Charles C. Coleman

Writer

Harold Shumate

Studio

Columbia Pictures

Released

1937-03-11

Running time

62 minutes

Cast & crew

• Charles C. Coleman Director
• Paul Kelly
• Rosalind Keith
• Francis McDonald
• JJohn Graham Spacey
• Leona Maricle
• Thurston Hall
• Raymond Brown
• Robert Terry

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