| Smashing the Vice Trust | |
| Director: | Melville Shyer |
| Producer: | Willis Kent |
| Starring: | Willy Castello Veola Vonn Selmer Jackson |
| Cinematography: | Robert E. Cline |
| Editing: | Fred Bain |
| Studio: | Willis Kent Productions |
| Distributor: | Willis Kent Productions |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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]
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.