Madame Racketeer
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Cast

Alison Skipworth
Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks

Richard Bennett
Elmer Hicks

George Raft
Jack Houston

John Breeden
David Butterworth

Evalyn Knapp
Alice Hicks

Gertrude Messinger
Patsy Hicks

Robert McWade
James Butterworth

J. Farrell MacDonald
John Adams

Oscar Apfel
J. Harrington Hagney

Jessie Arnold
Frankie

Irving Bacon
Gus, the Desk Clerk

George Barbier
Warden George Waddell

Frank Beal
Appleby - Bank Director

Ed Brady
Taxi Driver

Rita Carlyle
Inquisitive convict

Winter Hall
Minister

Robert Homans
Chief of Police

Arthur Hoyt
Shiffem

William Humphrey
Bank Director

Edgar Lewis
Bank Director
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