Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Edward Keane
- District Attorney
- (as Ed. Keane)
Janet Eastman
- Blonde with Drunk in Bar
- (uncredited)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaThe dive restaurant where Carolyn goes slumming is the same one that appears in the opening scenes of Marihuana (1936) (it also appears as a saloon in the Bob Steele western The Feud Maker (1938)). The house that Mae and her husband share also appears in Slaves in Bondage (1937) and the vanity set in Mae's bedroom also shows up in Reefer Madness (1936), where it's also owned by a character named Mae.
- GoofsDuring the police raid at the beginning of the film, a fat man hides under the bed, and is brought out by a cop. During this entire scene, the shadow of the microphone is plainly visible on the left wall of the set.
- Quotes
Attorney: There's nothing I can do.
Dr. Miller: [holding his wife's hands in his] Yes, there is! You can give me back my wife!
Attorney: I'm sorry, but that has to be decided by a judge and a jury.
- ConnectionsEdited into Teen Age (1943)
Featured review
Is She More To Be Pitied Than Censured?
There's a police raid on the gambling den. When they break into Wheeler Oakman's office, they find Martha Chapin standing over his corpse with a smoking gun. Soon she is in the office of District Attorney Edward Keane with her husband, research doctor Robert Frazer. Under questions, she starts telling the events that led to her murdering Oakman in extended flashback. She had been lured there by Vera Steadman, and had won at first, and spent the money. Then she lost heavily, and to pay off the debt was turned into a call girl.
It's cheap, Code-compliant exploitation, with occasional chorines in jiggly costumes, and Miss Chaplin disrobing: alternate shots of undergarments tossed to the floor, and Miss Chapin visible from the shoulder blade up.
Could this movie be considered an early example of film noir, or perhaps pre-noir? The flashback structure argues that it is, but if so, that's about it. It's cheap, it's sensational, and that is undoubtedly how it was sold to contemporary audiences.
It's cheap, Code-compliant exploitation, with occasional chorines in jiggly costumes, and Miss Chaplin disrobing: alternate shots of undergarments tossed to the floor, and Miss Chapin visible from the shoulder blade up.
Could this movie be considered an early example of film noir, or perhaps pre-noir? The flashback structure argues that it is, but if so, that's about it. It's cheap, it's sensational, and that is undoubtedly how it was sold to contemporary audiences.
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- boblipton
- Feb 12, 2024
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- The Vice Racket
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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