Vice Squad (1982) on Netflix
A Los Angeles businesswoman who walks the streets as Princess is pressed by Detective Tom Walsh's vice squad to help catch Ramrod, the pimp who killed her friend Ginger.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Princess supports herself and her young daughter Lisa by walking Sunset Boulevard. Her friend and coworker Ginger is hiding from her pimp Ramrod. Tom Walsh, a sergeant on the Los Angeles police vice squad, tries to get Ginger to name her attacker, and she dies before she can. Princess faces a cocaine possession charge, and Walsh warns her that a judge will take Lisa from her. He offers her a pardon if she helps catch the violent criminal he holds responsible for Ginger's death. Princess refuses out of fear until Walsh shows her the body, then agrees to wear a wire and attract Ramrod's attention at a nightclub.
Cast
- Joseph Di Girolomaas Kowalski (as Joseph DiGiroloma)
- Maurice Emanuelas Edwards
- Wayne Hackettas Christian Sorenson
- Nina Blackwoodas Ginger
- Sudana Bobatoonas Dixie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vice Squad (1982)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The project started as a television documentary about prostitution in Hollywood, which producer Brian Frankish and unit production manager James Robert Dyer pitched to executive producer Sandy Howard, interviewing real pimps and prostitutes with help from the LAPD Vice Squad; television censorship pushed it into becoming a dramatic feature instead.
- To prepare for her role as the streetwalker Princess, Season Hubley spent ten weeks with actual Los Angeles prostitutes, and the filmmakers worked with the LAPD on a making-of documentary that included interviews with real police officers and sex workers.
