A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Rockliffe Fellowes
- Detective-Sergeant Mather
- (as Rockcliffe Fellowes)
Irving Bacon
- Masher
- (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
- Court Clerk
- (uncredited)
James P. Burtis
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Martin Cichy
- Det. O'Brien
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaOne of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
- GoofsAt the Ambassador's Ball, the orchestra is playing 'Falling in Love Again' from The Blue Angel. This scene is set in 1929 or earlier, as there is a title which moves the action two years on after this, and The Vice Squad was released in 1931. 'Falling in Love Again' did not become well-known as a hit song until 1930.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
Featured review
Effective drama about moral choice
Intelligent drama benefits from literate script and a sensitive central performance by Paul Lukas, well cast as a diplomat blackmailed by corrupt vice cops into entrapping prostitutes. Lukas nicely balances a shabby gentility with despair as he's driven to drink in lowdown Greenwich Village dives to forget his "dirty" job. Choosing between sleek Kay Francis and blonde Judith Wood presents a romantic dilemma paralleling the moral decision he must make. Esther Howard--a longtime character actress and Preston Sturges favorite--here looks unrecognizably youthful as a salty-tongued artist's model.
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- rfkeser
- Jan 14, 2002
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
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