Jail Bait (1954)

72 min · Crime, Thriller, crime film, film noir

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Directors

Ed Wood

Cast

Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Steve Reeves, Herbert Rawlinson, Timothy Farrell, Clancy Malone, Theodora Thurman, Mona McKinnon, La Vada Simmons, John Avery, John Robert Martin, Don Nagel

The story

At a police station, Marilyn Gregor meets Inspector Johns and Lieutenant Bob Lawrence, as her brother Don Gregor had been arrested for carrying an unlicensed handgun. After she posts bail for him, he is released, but the police refuse Don's request to return his handgun. Johns suspects the young man is an associate of gangster Vic Brady.

Catalogue themes and tags

Culprit, Face Operation, Kriminalfälle, Murder of Police Man, Operation, Plastic Surgeon, Plastic Surgery, Surgeon, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Gangster Film, Suspense, Crime Thriller, Film noir

Genres

Crime, Thriller, crime film, film noir

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