The Love Racket

The Love Racket
Directed by	William A. Seiter
Written by	Adele Comandini John F. Goodrich
Based on	The Woman on the Jury by Bernard K. Burns
Starring	Dorothy Mackaill
Music by	Cecil Copping Alois Reiser
Cinematography	Sidney Hickox
Edited by	John Rawlins
Production company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release dates	December 8, 1929 (United States)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Love Racket was a 1929 American early 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.^[1][2] The film is now considered lost.^[3][4]

Myrtle Stedman reprises her role from the silent version in this film.

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

References

1. White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 460. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
2. The Woman on the Jury as produced on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street theatre, August 15, 1923; IBDb.com
3. The Love Racket at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures (1929)
4. The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..The Love Racket

External links

• The Love Racket at the Internet Movie Database
• The Love Racket at AllMovie
• Lobby poster