Madame Racketeer

Madame Racketeer

1932 · 72 min · ★ 5.3 · Comedy

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.

Directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble · Written by Harvey Gates

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