Racketeers in Exile

In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.

Cast

George Bancroft

as William Waldo

Evelyn Venable

as Myrtle Thornton

Wynne Gibson

as 'Babe' DeVoe

Marc Lawrence

as 'Blackie' White

John Gallaudet

as 'Happy'

George McKay

as 'Horseface'

William Burress

as Thornton

Helen Lowell

as Mrs.Abigail Thornton

Jack Rube Clifford

as Thyrus Jamison

Garry Owen

as Sy

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