Movies: Numbers racket

  • 1939
    Invisible Stripes

    Invisible Stripes (1939)

    Invisible Stripes

    6.31939HD

    A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....

    Invisible Stripes
  • 1950
    Force of Evil

    Force of Evil (1950)

    Force of Evil

    6.61950HD

    Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters wh...

    Force of Evil
  • 1937
    Murder Goes to College

    Murder Goes to College (1937)

    Murder Goes to College

    31937HD

    The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office....

    Murder Goes to College
  • 1983
    Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

    Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)

    Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

    5.81983HD

    Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business i...

    Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads