Smashing the Vice Trust (1937)
- Directed by
- Melville Shyer
- Country
- United States
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A government agent goes undercover to break up a deadly vice ring. The film follows his dangerous mission through the criminal underworld.
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What happens
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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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