Summary of movie Rubber Racketeers (1942)
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Gilin (Ricardo Cortez), is just releaesd from prison and at that moment that the government has clamped down on the sale of tires, decides to enter the tire-stealing-for-resell racket. Driving home, he has a vehicle wreck with defense workers Bill Barry (William Henry as Bill Henry) and Mary Dale (Barbara Read). His girl friend Nikki (Rochelle Hudson) persuades the gangster to settle Bills claim by giving him the old vehicle belonging to his Chinese servant Tom (Kam Tong), who is about to enter the army. Gilin sets up auto lots all over town where he sells cars and tires stolen by his gang. He also sells faulty synthetic tries and Marys brother Freddy (Sam Edwards) is killed when one of those blows out.
Bill and a group of dfeense workers try to trace the tire by its treads and finally locate one of Gilins vehicle lots as the place where it was sold. Gilin orders Nikki to set a trap for Bill so he can be eliminated. But Nikki warns Bill through Mary. Bill, feeling that Nikki knows the source of the hot rubber goes to see her at Gilins apartment,where Gilin knocks him out. Tom, in his newly-issued Army uniform, pleas with his old boss to give up that unpatritoic racket and is shot by Gilin.
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