Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood Roadhouse, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their roadhouse circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wannabe Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile. Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.