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The Woman Racket (1930)

The Woman Racket poster
Directed by
Robert Ober, Albert H. Kelley, Paul Bern
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman who works in a nightclub falls for a man from a different social class. Their relationship faces challenges from family and their different worlds.

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What happens

The Woman Racket is an extant 1930 American Pre-Code talking film directed by Robert Ober and Albert H. Kelley and starring Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was written by Albert Shelby Le Vino, based on the 1928 Broadway play Night Hostess by Philip Dunning. In January 2012 the film became available on DVD from the Warner Archive Collection home library. It was one of Blanche Sweet's three talking films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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