Rackety Rax

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Rackety Rax
Rackety Rax.jpg
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Written by Joel Sayre
Lou Breslow
Ben Markson
William M. Conselman
Bradley King
Murray Roth
Starring Victor McLaglen
Greta Nissen
Nell O'Day
Cinematography L. William O'Connell
Edited by Robert Bischoff
Music by Arthur Lange
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • October 23, 1932 (1932-10-23)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Rackety Rax is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy action film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Victor McLaglen, Greta Nissen and Nell O'Day. [1] [2]

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Always looking for an angle, "Knucks" McGloin purchases the mortgage on Canarsie College and then turns its football team's fortunes around by hiring thugs and hooligans as players and nightclub dancers as cheerleaders.

For the biggest game of the season, almost everything goes wrong. Canarsie's quarterback double-crosses his teammates and coach Brick Gilligan (a former Sing Sing inmate) by revealing the team's plays to the opponents. Guns are drawn on both sides, a bomb is tossed into the middle of a huddle and explosions destroy the cars belonging to both of the teams' owners as soon as the game ends.

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