Girls for Sale!

Pavlow, the leader of a white slavery operation, and adventuress Ilona, his assistant, lure young women into their business by posting jobs for cabaret work in Rio de Janeiro. One day, after Pavlow sends his henchman, Boydell, to London to obtain some stolen diamonds, Ilona searches the city for an unsuspecting young man to work as her "secretary." Ilona meets down-and-out Bob Morgand and, preying on his desperation, convinces him to accept her job. Boydell then returns from London with the diamonds, but Pavlow smugly reneges on a promise to pay him half of the jewels' worth. Enraged at the double cross, Boydell swears revenge and, by chance, sees Pavlow slip into a conservative business suit before leaving his office. Boydell follows his boss to the suburbs and learns that he lives there as Hans Schroder with his unsuspecting wife and teenaged daughter Georgette. While spying on Pavlow at the train station, Boydell overhears Georgette and her father arguing about her participation in an amateur theatrical show. Seeing how Pavlow uses his paternal authority to dominate Georgette, Boydell decides to involve the girl in his revenge scheme. Through Georgette's girl friend, Boydell convinces Georgette that her father is being unfair and offers to use his connections to help her pursue a theatrical career in the city. After she is encouraged to leave home by her weak-willed mother, Georgette meets with Ilona and the still unsuspecting Bob and agrees to make the trip to Rio. On the ship south, however, Bob and Georgette become attracted to each other, a development that greatly concerns Ilona. To nip the romance in the bud, Ilona reveals the truth about the operation to Bob and warns him about his criminal liability in the matter. Although Bob is at first intimidated by Ilona's threats, he eventually confesses all to the ship's captain, who immediately cables the police. Convinced of Bob's innocence, the police ask the young man to continue on to Rio in order to discover Ilona's secret code. The revenge-hungry Boydell, meanwhile, gleefully informs a distraught Pavlow about Georgette, and the news causes Pavlow to go insane. Back in Rio, the local police uncover Ilona's code with Bob's help and arrest Ilona and her cohorts before Georgette is attacked by her first customer. Thus saved, Georgette embraces Bob.