Academy Award for Best Picture

1928/29

The Racket

Release dates

November 1, 1928

Starring

Thomas Meighan

Marie Prevost

Louis Wolheim

The Racket (1928) is an American crime film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone. The film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Tom Miranda, and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was adapted from Cormack's 1927 Broadway play The Racket.