Jail Bait (1954)

Directed by

Ed Wood

Genre

film noir, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

NR

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor's son gets involved with a dangerous criminal. The criminal forces a plastic surgeon to change his face to escape the law.

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What happens

Jail Bait (working title was The Hidden Face) is a 1954 American film noir directed by Ed Wood, with a screenplay by Wood and Alex Gordon. The film stars Clancy Malone as the delinquent son of a famous doctor, and his involvement with a dangerous criminal. Famed bodybuilder Steve Reeves made his first major screen appearance in the film, and it was one of the few films he made using his own voice (most of the films he made thereafter in Italy were dubbed in post production using other actors' voices). The film belongs to the film noir genre, and contains themes typical of it such as plastic surgery and identity theft. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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