CANCELLED: The Racket
CANCELLED: The Racket
Live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.
Live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.
Lewis Milestone followed his Oscar-winning direction of the comedy Two Arabian Knights (1927)—awarded at the first Academy Awards in 1928—with this gangster thriller, one of his final silent films and a nominee for Outstanding Picture, also in the first year of the Academy Awards. Silent star Thomas Meighan plays Captain James “Mac” McQuigg, a tough Chicago cop fighting both gangsters and his own corrupt department. The film was long believed lost until one surviving copy was found in Howard Hughes’s personal collection and preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
DIRECTED BY: Lewis Milestone. WRITTEN BY: Bartlett Cormack, Del Andrews, Tom Miranda. WITH: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, Pat Collins. 1928. 84 min. USA. B&W. Silent. English intertitles. DCP. Restored in 2016 by the Academy Film Archive. Elements for this restoration provided by The Howard Hughes Corporation and by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, College of Fine Arts’ Department of Film and its Howard Hughes Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
Blüthner piano provided by Kasimoff - Blüthner Piano Co., Hollywood, CA
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