| The Racket | |
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Produced by | Howard Hughes |
| Written by | Bartlett Cormack Tom Miranda |
| Starring | Thomas Meighan Marie Prevost Louis Wolheim |
| Cinematography | Tony Gaudio |
| Editing by | Eddie Adams |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Running time | 84 min. Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) ( September 30 1895 - September 25 1980) was an Academy Award -winning motion picture Howard Robard Hughes Jr (December 24 1905 – April 5 1976 was an American Aviator, Industrialist, Film producer / director, Philanthropist Thomas Meighan ( April 9, 1879 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - July 8, 1936, Great Neck, New York) Marie Prevost (November 8 1898 - January 21 1937 was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. Louis Wolheim ( March 28, 1880 - February 18, 1931) was an American Character actor. Tony Gaudio, ASC ( Gaetano Antonio Gaudio) ( 20 November 1883 - 10 August 1951) was the chief photographer for Mary Pickford Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | silent film English intertitles |
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The Racket (1928) is a crime film, written by Eddie Adams (titles), Del Andrews, Harry Behn, Bartlett Cormack (adaptation), and Bartlett Cormack (play). The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Events Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent. A crime film, in the most general sense is a Film that involves various aspects Crime and the Criminal justice system Del Andrews (born Udell Endrows (1894 - 1942 was a Hollywood writer/director in the 1920s Harry Behn, also known as Giles Behn, was an American Screenwriter and children's author The film was directed by Lewis Milestone and produced by Howard Hughes for Hughes' Caddo Corporation, and was originally released by Paramount Pictures. Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) ( September 30 1895 - September 25 1980) was an Academy Award -winning motion picture Howard Robard Hughes Jr (December 24 1905 – April 5 1976 was an American Aviator, Industrialist, Film producer / director, Philanthropist Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. It stars Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone. Thomas Meighan ( April 9, 1879 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - July 8, 1936, Great Neck, New York) Marie Prevost (November 8 1898 - January 21 1937 was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. Louis Wolheim ( March 28, 1880 - February 18, 1931) was an American Character actor. George E Stone (born George Lichtenstein May 18, 1903 in Łódź, Congress Poland - d
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Background
Due to the controversial portrayal of a corrupt police force and city government both the film and the play were banned at the time in Chicago. For nearly the entire History of film production certain films have been either Boycotted by political and religious groups or literally banned by a Regime Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. [1]
Reception
The Racket is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production") in 1929. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to artists working The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Preservation status
Only one copy of the film is known to exist. [2] It was long thought lost before being located in Howard Hughes' film collection after his death. A print was shepherded by Dr. Hart Wegner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas film department for restoration by Jeffrey Masino, along with another "lost" Hughes-produced film, Two Arabian Knights (1927). Two Arabian Knights is an Academy Award -winning 1927 American Comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Events January 10 - Fritz Lang 's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany In 2004 and 2006, Turner Classic Movies broadcast The Racket, Two Arabian Knights, and The Mating Call (1928), the first showing of any of the three films in decades. Turner Classic Movies ( TCM) is a cable television channel featuring commercial -free classic movies mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner The Mating Call ( 1928) is a silent movie about a WWI vet who takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman
References
External links
The Racket at the Internet Movie Database
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