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Robert Mitchum: The Racket

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Also starring Elizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
Concluding the season of Mitchum films, he plays honest Captain McQuigg of the Chicago police force. Nick Scanlon is an old-fashioned gangster whose violent methods are out of step with modern, more subtle means of persuasion and corruption. When McQuigg sets out to nail Nick and the crime syndicate he represents, the gang leader's reaction is predictable - and deadly.
Films: page 21

Contributors

Screenplay:
William Wister Haines
Screenplay:
W.R. Burnett
Based on the play by:
Bartlett Cormack
Director:
John Cromwell
Captain McQuigg:
Robert Mitchum
Irene:
Lizabeth Scott
Nick:
Robert Ryan
Johnson:
William Talman
Welch:
Ray Collins
Mary McQuigg:
Joyce MacKenzie
Ames:
Robert Hutton
Lucy Johnson:
Virginia Huston
Turck:
William Conrad
Source: Radio Times

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