only howard hughes could have pull off something as subversive a the racket . it contain ( as far a i can tell ) the first reference of cocaine use in any american film . the casting be perfect . from the broken nose tough to the dangerously sexy gun moll and you would be hard press to find a good team of hard boil noir player . the film be fill with exotic image . the woman with a face on the top of her hat . the violin with a trumpet horn attach to it . the hollywood establishment would have never make this film . like vampyr and which be make in germany with independent money in 1932 and the film be pregnant with the artistic audacity that only non hollywood money can bring into a production . the racket be worth the search . if you like the gangster genre and you will not be disappoint .