Description
Ed Wood's ultra-cheap foray into the fim noir genre was shot in four days at Monterey Park for a total budget of $21000. Don Gregor is headed for trouble with the law when one night he kills a night-watchman during a robbery. When he decides to confess, his partner bumps him off. The partner, having been seen at the scene of the crime, decides that the way to avoid capture it to force the father of Don, a plastic surgeon, to give him a new face. However the father knows that theis gangster murdered his son before he starts the operation and when the patient removes his bandages the face staring back at him is that of the wanted murdered son.
Synopsis
JAIL BAIT is a grimy drama about criminals sleazing around a crummy little town, by the acknowledged king of bad cinema, Ed Wood. In what was conceived as his homage to the TV series DRAGNET and the film noir of the 1930s and 1940s, Wood developed this vehicle for stars Steve Reeves and Delores Fuller, his wife. The story is about a young criminal who kills a cop and has plastic surgery to alter his face. The film's title, however, is misleading; the only mention of "jail bait" in the film is made in reference to a gun! The Rhino version is a "Director's Cut" (!) with the striptease sequence.
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