On this day in movie and book history - The Racket (1928 movie & books):

The Racket

directed by Lewis Milestone,

written by Bartlett Cormack, Del Andrews, Tom Miranda, Harry Behn,

based on the play by Bartlett Cormack,

released in the United States on June 30, 1928.

Cast: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins, Henry Sedley, George E. Stone, Sam De Grasse, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Lee Moran, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Dan Wolheim, Frank Austin, Walter Brennan, Jimmy Dime, Jim Farley, Ruth Feldman, Sherry Hall, Sydney Jarvis, Tony Marlo, Burr McIntosh, Pat McKee, Lewis Milestone, William H. O'Brien, Jack Perry, Dick Rush, Charles Sullivan, Nick Thompson, Harry Wilson.

Recommended reading:
 

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.

Recommended reading - 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.