Jail Bait (1954 film)

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Jail Bait

Original film poster
Directed by Edward D. Wood Jr.
Produced by Edward D. Wood Jr.
Written by Alex Gordon
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Starring Lyle Talbot
Dolores Fuller
Cinematography William C. Thompson
Distributed by Howco Productions Inc.
Release date(s) 1954
Running time 74 min.
Language English
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Jail Bait is a 1954 Ed Wood crime film starring Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller and Lyle Talbot. The "jail bait" of the title does not refer to an underaged girl, but to the illicit handgun that drives the plot.

There are two different versions of the movie: one with a striptease sequence, and the other with a blackface minstrel comedy routine. The version with the striptease sequence is often released on video editions as the "director's cut."

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[edit] Plot summary

Don Gregor (Clancy Malone), the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor (Herbert Rawlinson), begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell) and carry a gun. The pair attempt an armed holdup, and when things start to go wrong Gregor accidentally kills a night watchman. Fearing that Gregor plans to turn himself in, Brady kills him and blackmails Dr. Gregor into giving him a new face.

[edit] Trivia

  • This was bodybuilder Steve Reeves's first film role.
  • In the documentary film Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora, Dolores Fuller, commented that during her kiss with the actor, he did not/could not reciprocate her kiss.
  • Herbert Rawlinson died the day after his scenes were filmed.

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Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Feature films directed
Glen or Glenda (1953) • Jail Bait (1954) • Bride of the Monster (1955) • Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) • Night of the Ghouls (1959) • The Sinister Urge (1961) • Take it Out in Trade (1970) • Excited (1970) • The Only House in Town (1971) • Necromania (1971) • The Young Marrieds (1971)
Short films directed
Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan (1953) • Final Curtain (1957) • The Night the Banshee Cried (1957) •
Television films directed
The Sun Was Setting (1951) • Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid' (1953) • Boots (1953)
Films written, not directed
The Violent Years (1956) • The Bride and the Beast (1958) • Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) • Shotgun Wedding (1963) • Orgy of the Dead (1965) • One Million AC/DC (1969) • The Love Feast (1969) • The Venus Flytrap (1971) • The Undergraduate (1972) • Drop-Out Wife (1972) • Class Reunion (1972) • The Snow Bunnies (1972) • The Cocktail Hostesses (1973) • Five Loose Women (1974) • The Beach Bunnies (1976) • Hot Ice (1978 film) (1978)
Posthumous films
Crossroads of Laredo (filmed 1948/released 1995) • Hellborn (filmed mid-1950s; released 1993) • Take it Out in Trade: The Outtakes (filmed 1970; released 1995) • I Woke Up Early The Day I Died (written 1970s; released 1998)
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