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directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring

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and Nell O'Day. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:''..Rackety Rax''
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Plot

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

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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.

Cast

as 'Knucks' McGloin *

as Voine * Nell O'Day as Doris * Alan Dinehart as Counsellor Sultsfeldt * Stanley Fields as Gilatti * Marjorie Beebe as Mrs. McGloin *

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as 'Dutch' *

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as 'Brick' Gilligan * Allen Jenkins as Mike Dumphy * Esther Howard as 'Sister' Carrie *

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as Tossilitis *

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as Dr. Vanderveer * John Keyes as McGloin's Bodyguard * Joe Brown as McGloin's Bodyguard * Arthur Pierson as 'Speed' Bennett

References

Bibliography

* Aubrey Solomon. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011.

External links

* * 1932 films American action comedy films Films directed by Alfred L. Werker Fox Film films American black-and-white films 1930s action comedy films Films scored by Arthur Lange 1932 comedy films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub