Jail Bait (1954)

Movie
Original title	Jail bait
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1954
length	72 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ed Wood
script	Alex Gordon ; Ed Wood
production	Ed Wood
music	Hoyt Curtin
camera	William C. Thompson
cut	Charles Clement ; Igo Cantor
occupation
	Lyle Talbot : Inspector Johns; Dolores Fuller : Marilyn Gregor; Herbert Rawlinson : Doctor Gregor; Clancy Malone : Don Gregor; Timothy Farrell : Vic Brady; Theodora Thurman : Loretta; Steve Reeves : Lieutenant Bob Lawrence; Don Nagel : Detective Davis; John Robert Martin : Detective McCall; Bud Osborne : the shot night watchman; Mona McKinnon : Miss Willis; La Vada Simmons : Miss Lytell; Regina Claire : journalist; John Avery: Police Doctor; Conrad Brooks : some supporting roles; Ted Brooks : Cop; Ed Wood: News anchor; Chick and Cotton Watts : Entainers in the night club; Henry Bederski;

Jail Bait is an American thriller from 1954 directed by Ed Wood for the film company Howco . The script was created as a collaboration between Ed Wood and Alex Gordon .

action

Don Gregor, the son of the world-famous plastic surgeon Doctor Gregor, was arrested and released on bail . When he gets home, he starts planning a new coup with his criminal friend Vic Brady. After all, you raid a theater. During this attack, Don kills a night watchman and Vic shoots another witness.

Together they flee to Vic's wife Loretta. When the police interrogate the surviving witness, they get a tip that it is Don Gregor and Vic Brady. You drive to Dr. Gregor and learn from him that his son wants to surrender. Before that happens, however, he is shot by Vic.

Vic eventually forces Dr. Gregor to perform plastic surgery on him. After Dr. Gregor finds the corpse of his son by chance, he forges a plan of revenge at short notice, which he implements on Vic's face.

Background information

The film was supported by police stations in the Alhambra , Monterey Park and Temple City . The copyright was registered in 1954 under the number 1954 LP3883 and expired in 1983. The copyright has not been renewed since then, making this film a public domain title in the United States .

Originally the film was supposed to be released under the title The Hidden Face , but the producers of the film insisted on releasing the film under the title Jail Bait in order to make more money at the box office.

For Herbert Rawlinson , who took on the role of Doctor Gregor , this film was to be the last of his career. He died just a day after filming. The film's music score was largely borrowed from the Mesa of Lost Women film . For Steve Reeves , this film marked the beginning of his cinema career.

The film shows the work of the entertainers Chick and Cotton Watts in one scene , where he appears as a blackface actor and entertains the audience of the show in the raided theater.

Web links

Jail Bait in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film on Archive.org