Madame Racketeer (1932)
Comedy • 1h 12m
Directors: Alexander Hall & Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Cast: Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett, George Raft, John Breeden, Evalyn Knapp, Gertrude Messinger, Robert McWade, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Jessie Arnold, Irving Bacon, George Barbier, Frank Beal, Bonita, Ed Brady, Rita Carlyle, Anna Chandler, Winter Hall, Arthur Raymond Hill, Robert Homans, Arthur Hoyt, William Humphrey, Alfred P. James, Edgar Lewis, Kate Morgan, Nellie V. Nichols, Edward Peil Sr., Scott Seaton, Cora Shumway, Oscar Smith, Walter Walker, Eleanor Wesselhoeft
No official release
No official edition exists. Anything circulating comes from unofficial sources, so there is no release this site can recommend.
Best video release
Unofficial DVD
About the film
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
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