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Jail Bait

195471 minUnited States
Film noir
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Original language
English
This copy runs
71:15
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English

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Synopsis

The son of a respected plastic surgeon falls under a criminal's influence and joins a robbery that turns fatal. As the police close in, his partner sees the father's profession as a possible escape route. A demand for a new face draws the whole family into a scheme built on coercion and concealed identities.

Cast

DirectorsEd Wood

Behind the scenes

Ed Wood directed from a screenplay he wrote with Alex Gordon. Bodybuilder Steve Reeves appears as a police officer in an early substantial screen role, before the European adventure films that made him internationally famous. Plastic surgery supplies the crime plot with its central mechanism of disguise.

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