Dance Hall Racket

Dance Hall Racket is a 1953 American low-budget noir crime drama film directed by Phil Tucker and starring Timothy Farrell. It was written by Lenny Bruce, who also stars in the film with his wife Honey Harlow.^[1]

A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line. A merchant marine seaman is found murdered at the place and suspicion quickly falls upon the operator of a dime-a-dance honky tonk joint. A federal undercover agent is planted in the place to gather evidence, and he soon learns that the dive is only a cover-up for diamond-smuggling activities, and that one of the operation's henchmen, who is handy with a switch-blade knife, is the actual killer. Before they can be arrested, the henchman kills his boss and is shot while trying to escape.

• Timothy Farrell as Umberto Scalli
• Lenny Bruce as Vincent
• Bernie Jones as Punky, the Swedish Sailor
• Honey Bruce Friedman Rose (as Honey Harlow)
• Sally Marr as Hostess
• Bunny Parker as Dancehall Girl
• Joie Abrams as Dancehall Girl
• Ronald Lee
• Bill King
• Mary Holiday as Dancehall Girl
• Harry Keaton
• Joe Piro as Henchman

Music Department Sanford H. Dickinson ... music consultant (as Sandford H. Dickinson) Charles Ruddy ... musical director (uncredited)

• Dance Hall Racket at IMDb
• Dance Hall Racket is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
• Dance Hall Racket at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}