The Racketeer (1929)

Directors

Howard Higgin

Cast

Bobby Dunn, Carole Lombard, Hedda Hopper, John Loder, Paul Hurst, Robert Armstrong, Winter Hall

The story

thumb|The full film A busker playing a violin is harassed by a group of street punks until Police Officer Mehaffy (Paul Hurst) chases them away. The intoxicated violinist passes out. When Mehaffy is about to arrest him for vagrancy the powerful Mahlon Keane (Robert Armstrong) places $50 in the violinist's pocket and has the officer place him in the next taxi where Keane will pay for a night's accommodation at the YMCA for him to sleep it off.

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