Word: mcgloin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert M. Thomson -- Miss Jean McGloin, Cambridge
Rackety Rax (Fox) is a brilliant travesty on college football and racketeering. It starts when a gangster, Knucks McGloin (Victor McLaglen) is escorted to his first football game by his publicity agent. Speed Bennett (Arthur Pierson...
Persuaded to choose a more temperate course, McGloin first tries to buy out Fordham, then West Point and Annapolis. Finally he founds a Carnarsie University, acquires competent coaches, converts his stable of plug-uglies and wrestlers into a terrifying football team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot...
...MIKE McGloin had the idea football was a pansy game, until he saw a Yale-Army battle. Then he perceived opportunities for muscling in, and it took a lot of persuasion to show him the impossibility of getting a cut from the Chancellor of New York University. The result was that he set up his own university, Carnasie, hired a coach, and proceeded to weld old wrestlers and pugs into an eleven. For, according to the coach, "opening, a university ain't much different to opening a speakeasy...