The Racket

While reading all the dialogue of this silent film I found myself coming up with different accents for all the tough mugs inside my head. I couldn't help but act out the film myself using all the cliché gangster voices I've heard before in talkies. It's a nice way to engage with a film that got lost when sound came in. Other than that it wasn't terribly engaging, the story was a little convoluted and the focus was too much on the good honest cop and not enough on the gangsters. Louis Wolheim who plays the head mobster has a look that is so distinctive it seems he inadvertently became the model for the gangster caricatures in every cartoon that's been made since.