AustLit

'A man discovers that his wife is an addict, and endeavours to break the ring of drug dealers, who include several Chinese. Only the last two reels of the film survive, and they reveal a plot which centres on Mr Robert Grainger, who has supposedly disappeared, but who has actually taken on a disguise to find the murderer of his Chinese friend, Li Chu Woon. The villain and his henchmen are thwarted by Detective Scott, a reporter, Dick Southern, Grainger's daughter, Jackie, and others obviously on the side of law and order.'

Source: National Film and Sound Archive. (Sighted: 16/8/2013)

The film was reviewed, after its preview screening, in the Sydney Morning Herald, which was scathing:

'The "menace" is the drug traffic, and the first scenes show cocaine or some such stuff being purveyed secretly in a back alley. The effect is uncomfortably sinister. One can pardon sordidness where it is part of a considered picture of life, but where a subject and a setting inherently repulsive are introduced for their own sakes, they cannot be defended. It is not as though the drug traffic were here taken seriously as a social problem–it serves merely as a pretext for very thin and bombastic melodrama. Not for an instant can the spectator delude himself into the idea that what he is looking at is real. Restless, violent acting sets illusion still more decisively at a distance, while the captions are both numerous and crude, and the scenario abounds in superfluous, undramatic scenes.'

Source: ''The Menace. Australian Film.' Sydney Morning Herald, 3 February 1928, p.8.