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 by	Melville Shyer
Written by	Marion Candler
Produced by	Willis Kent
Starring	Willy Castello Veola Vonn Selmer Jackson
Cinematography	Robert E. Cline
Edited by	Fred Bain
Production company	Willis Kent Productions
Distributed by	Willis Kent Productions
Release date	January 3, 1937 (1937-01-03)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

• Willy Castello as James 'Lucky' Lombardi
• Veola Vonn as Lois Bacon
• Dean Benton as Harry
• Selmer Jackson as District Attorney
• Sam Flint as Martin Standish - Crooked Lawyer
• Paul Parry as Eddie
• Sheldon Jett as Henchman
• Frank LaRue as Mr. Bacon
• Augusta Anderson as Madam
• Maude Fealy as Mrs. Bacon
• Ed Cassidy as Police Officer
• Lester Dorr as Eddie's Henchman