Smashing_the_Vice_Trust

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Smashing the Vice Trust

1937 film

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]

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Plot

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.

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Schaefer p.1-2
  2. [2]
    Pitts p.204

Bibliography

  • 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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