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. Castello later reprised the role for another Kent film Confessions of a Vice Baron (1942).

Synopsis
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

References

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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1937 films
1937 crime films
1930s English-language films
American crime films
Films directed by Melville Shyer
1930s American films
1930s exploitation films