The Pace That Kills (1935) on Netflix

Plot summary

Drug pusher Nick stops at a small-town diner and convinces Jane Bradford, who runs it, to hide him from the cops. Jane, a good girl, his smitten by handsome, debonair Nick, who gives her something to snort to get ride of her pounding headache. He convinces her to go with him to the city, where they will be married. Jane leaves her mother and goes off with Nick, but once in the city she learns that he is actually a drug dealer and the "headache powder" he's been giving her is cocaine. She becomes his moll, but he becomes interested in a pretty blonde they see at a drive-in. The blonde has a crush on a guy who works at the drive-in: Eddie Bradford, Jane's brother, who has come to the city to look for her. Eddie's co-worker Fanny introduces him to cocaine, again under the pre-text that it is a "headache medicine." Eddie is hooked. The boss fires both of them, and they end up sharing a filthy skid-row apartment. Eddie is too messed-up on smack to get another job, so Fanny goes out and sells her virtue for drug money. One night she is passing The Rat, a sleazy dive, when she's spotted by one of the customers--the blonde, who gives her some money. Fanny hurries back to the apartment and gives Eddie the money, and he rushes off to an opium den, leaving her alone in the apartment. Meanwhile, Nick and his henchmen plot to kidnap the blonde, who is the daughter of Mr. Farley, the district attorney.