Recommended reading - The Racket

 

The Racket

The Racket
by Bartlett Cormack.

A play in three acts.

ASIN: B0BPM49P6T
Published by Samuel French.
Published 1928.
 
Adapted to film in 1928 and 1951.
 
The play The Racket is also available in the following anthology:
 
Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Plays
Edited by Richard Nelson.

Paperback.
Published 1993.
Published by Theatre Communications Group.

ISBN 13: 9780930452551
ISBN 10: 0930452550
ASIN: 0930452550

Contents: Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges; The Racket by Bartlett Cormack; The Ghost of Yankee Doodle by Sidney Howard and A Slight Case of Murder by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.

On this day in movie history - The Racket (1951)

The Racket

directed by John Cromwell,

written by William Wister Haines and W.R. Burnett,

based on the play by Bartlett Cormack,

was released in the United States on October 25, 1951.

Music by Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins, Joyce MacKenzie, Robert Hutton, Virginia Huston, William Conrad, Walter Sande, Les Tremayne, Don Porter, Walter Baldwin, Brett King, Richard Karlan, Tito Vuolo, Milburn Stone.

On this day in movie history - The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)

The Phantom of Crestwood

directed by J. Walter Ruben,

written by Bartlett Cormack,

based on a story by Bartlett Cormack and J. Walter Ruben,

was released in the United States on October 14, 1932.

Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:

Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise, Pauline Frederick, H.B. Warner, Mary Duncan, Sam Hardy, Tom Douglas, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Ivan Simpson, Aileen Pringle, George E. Stone, Robert McWade, Hilda Vaughn, Gavin Gordon, Matty Kemp, Clarence Wilson, Eddie Sturgis, Robert Elliott.