In The Big Shakedown, a con-man and racketeer gets involved in a scheme to counterfeit toothpaste. As he navigates the criminal underworld of New York, he becomes entangled in murder and druggist racketeering. Set during the Great Depression, this pre-code movie explores the dark side of society.
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
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