The Pace That Kills is a 1928 American silent exploitation film directed by Norton S. Parker and William O'Connor.

The film tells the story of two young people who get involved with a drug dealer and become addicted to opium and cocaine.

[2] Eddie Bradley (Owen Gorin), a young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister, Grace (Florence Dudley).

Eddie finds work in a department store and meets Fanny O'Rell (Virginia Roye), a city girl who introduces him to narcotics, and he falls into the clutches of drug dealers.

Grace is jailed and Eddie is hospitalized, where, after months of agony, he is cured of his habit and allowed to return home to his family and his childhood sweetheart (Thelma Daniels).