Jail Bait (1954 film)

Jail Bait also known as Hidden Face is a 1954 American Film Noir crime film 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 screen appearance in the film.

The film belongs to the film noir genre, and contains themes typical of it such as plastic surgery and identity theft.The film credits open to the scene of a moving police car in the streets of Alhambra, California. The car stops at a police station, and the officers inside it transport their drunk prisoner to the station. Inside the station, Marilyn Gregor Dolores Fuller meets Inspector Johns Lyle Talbot and Lt. Bob Lawrence Steve Reeves. Through their discussion, the viewers learn that her brother Don Gregor Clancy Malone had been arrested for carrying an unlicensed handgun. She has just posted bail for him, and the two officers warn her that she would forfeit if her brother fails to show up for his trial. They release her brother, but they refuse Dons request to return his handgun. As the Gregor siblings leave, John Muses about the son of a great doctor being a jerk. Lawrence suggests it could be a result of the sins of the father. Johns suspects the young man was an associate of gangster Vic Brady Timothy Farrell. ........

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