The Love Racket
The Love Racket is a 1929 American sound crime drama film produced and distributed by First [National Pictures]. It was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on a Broadway play, The Woman on the Jury by Bernard K. Burns, and is a remake of a 1924 silent film of the same name which starred Bessie Love. The film is now considered lost.
Myrtle Stedman reprises her role from the 1924 silent version in this film.
Plot
Cast
- Dorothy Mackaill as Betty Brown
- Sidney Blackmer as Fred Masters
- Edmund Burns as George Wayne
- Myrtle Stedman as Marion Masters
- Edwards Davis as Judge Davis
- Webster Campbell as Prosecuting Attorney
- Clarence Burton as Defense Attorney
- Alice Day as Grace Pierce
- Edith Yorke as Mrs. Pierce
- Martha Mattox as Mrs. Slade
- Tom Mahoney as Detective McGuire
- Jack Curtis as John Gerrity
Music