Martin Rackin (31 July 1918 – 15 April 1976) was an American writer and producer who was briefly head of production at Paramount Pictures from 1960 to 1964.
You always had the feeling that he was some sort of a street corner shell game operator keeping an eye open for the cops.
He wrote several films for Ladd including Hell on Frisco Bay (1956), Santiago (1956), The Big Land (1957) and The Deep Six (1958).
He also produced Top Secret Affair (1957), The Helen Morgan Story (1957), Darby's Rangers (1958), Fort Dobbs (1959), and The Barbarians (1960).
[5] In July 1960 Rackin was appointed supervisory chief of production at Paramount Studios, a position that had been vacant since Dan Hartman left in 1956.
At the time Paramount were dominated by independent production units run by producers like Hal Wallis, George Seaton and Alfred Hitchcock.
[9] His credits include Stagecoach (1966), Rough Night in Jericho (1967), The Great Sex War (1969), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and The Revengers (1972).