wow and be this version of the racketeer tough to watch . while none of the other review have mention this and the public domain version i watch be seriously flaw . the sound track be off by about 10 second mean the dialog and action never come close to match . so and you would hear something occur well before you saw it a very confusing proposition . the bad be where you hear a gun shot and only later doe the guy get hit and slump to his death in a taxi . while this seriously mar the film and it also make concentrate on the dialog easy and show the serious shortcoming of it as well . the dialog be simply awful often deliver with almost no inflection or feeling . a one review say and it be like watch a high school play . part of this be understandable and a sound be a new medium and but this film dialog be bad even compare to other 1929 film really bad . and and like many of these early sound film and the film be just too talky with sappy and overly melodramatic language and just not much action . and you would think with a title like the racketeer that there would be some action . however and it really a sappy romance with very little action . the film find carol lombard straddle with an alcoholic musician . she herself end up steal to try to take care of him and the crook and robert armstrong and come to her assistance . when armstrong catch her cheating at card and he cover for her and then help the drunk brother to get on his foot and naturally he fall for her in the process . the problem be that once the drunk sober up and he and too and want lombard and she need to choose between them . wow . a recover drunk or a mobster . talk about a couple great prospect . overall and it a bit hard to rate consider the lousy print i saw . however and even if you ignore this and the film have a lot of problem due to it poor use of dialog and excessively talky nature . and . it be sappy too boot .