The Vice Squad is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell, written by Oliver H.P.

Garrett, and starring Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, William B. Davidson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Esther Howard and Monte Carter.

“The vice squad trick a foreign embassy into squealing on an infamous gang of crooks.” [3] A foreign embassy worker is caught, in an embarrassing situation with the wife of an ambassador.

In trying to avoid revealing the name of the ambassadors‘s wife to the police, the embassy attache makes a deal with a dirty cop to be used as a stool pigeon to inform on prostitutes.

He ends up working on a case of a girl who he knows is innocent, but being framed by the cops, so he is faced with the difficult decision of exposing his past or letting her go to jail.