Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943)
1943 · Feature film · 58 min · dir. Melville Shyer
Hired Guns - Sex Slaves - Easy Money! The Inside Story of Organized Crime.
- Drama
Synopsis
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Melville Shyer
- Writer
- Marion Candler
- Studio
- Willis Kent Productions
- Released
- 1943-06-30
- Running time
- 58 minutes
Cast & crew
Melville Shyer Director
Carleton Young
Lona Andre
Lloyd Ingraham
Lester Dorr
Selmer Jackson
Constance Worth
Betty Compson
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · No Need to Cut This to Pieces, · trilby1989 · 2011-12-17
The editor did a fine enough job, thank you. In the classic exploitation film style of flashback, our anti-hero James "Lucky" Lombardo remembers for us his exploits in the vice rackets. From gigolo to unlicensed abortion doctor; whoremaker to racket boss, Lucky's tale is so epic this one hour movie seems like two. Perhaps due to the onset of the later stages of syphilis, his memory lapses in places, as he remembers earlier events after first remembering later events. Though viewers might get somewhat confused by all the jumping around, all is well, as we are assured that in the end lecherous…
