Rubber Racketeers

Rubber Racketeers (1942) is a drama, crime film directed by Harold Young rated 5.5/10.

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.

Cast

Ricardo Cortez

Gilin

Rochelle Hudson

Nikki

William Henry

Bill Barry (as Bill Henry)

Barbara Read

Mary Dale

John Abbott

Dumbo

Dick Rich

Mule

Dewey Robinson

Larkin

Sam Edwards

Freddy Dale

Kam Tong

Tom

Milburn Stone

Angel

Pat Gleason

Curley

Alex Callam

Butch