Smashing the Vice Trust

Smashing the Vice Trust is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by Melville Shyer and starring Willy Castello, Veola Vonn and Selmer Jackson. Marketed as an exploitation film, it was produced and distributed by the Poverty Row studio Willis Kent Productions.[1] Castello later reprised the role for another Kent film Confessions of a Vice Baron (1942).[2]

Smashing the Vice Trust
Directed byMelville Shyer
Written byMarion Candler
Produced byWillis Kent
StarringWilly Castello
Veola Vonn
Selmer Jackson
CinematographyRobert E. Cline
Edited byFred Bain
Production
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Distributed byWillis Kent Productions
Release date
  • January 3, 1937 (1937-01-03)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Criminal 'Lucky' Lombardi notices that profits are down in his vice empire and has him henchman begin a campaign of recruiting of kidnapping pretty high school girls to work for him as prostitutes, even as he backs a campaign to crack down on vice targeted at his rivals.

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References

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  1. ^ Schaefer p.1-2
  2. ^ Pitts p.204

Bibliography

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  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940. McFarland & Company, 1997.
  • Schaefer, Eric. "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959. Duke University Press, 1999.
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