The Racket (1928 film)

The Racket 1928 is an American crime film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone. The film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Tom Miranda, and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was adapted from Cormacks 1927 Broadway play The Racket.

The Racket is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture then called Outstanding Picture in the 1929 Academy Awards.Only one copy of the film is known to exist. It was long thought lost before being located in Howard Hughes film collection after his death. A print was shepherded by Dr. Hart Wegner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, film department for restoration by Jeffrey Masino, along with another Hughesproduced film, Two Arabian Knights 1927. In 2004 and 2006, Turner Classic Movies broadcast The Racket, Two Arabian Knights, and The Mating Call 1928, the first showing of any of the three films in decades. ........

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