Jail Bait (1954)

Description

Jail Bait (also known as 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.

Cast

• Lyle Talbot as Inspector Johns
• Steve Reeves as Lieutenant Bob Lawrence, Johns’s associate
• Herbert Rawlinson as Dr. Boris Gregor, a successful plastic surgeon and father of Don and Marilyn
• Clancy Malone as Don Gregor, Dr. Gregor’s son and an associate of gangster Vic Brady
• Dolores Fuller as Marilyn Gregor, Dr. Gregor’s daughter and Don’s sister
• Timothy Farrell as Vic Brady, a gangster
• Theodora Thurman as Loretta, Brady’s mistress
• Bud Osborne as Paul McKenna, a Night Watchman in a theater
• Mona McKinnon as Miss Willis, a bookkeeper in a theater
• La Vada Simmons as Miss Lytell, Dr. Gregor’s receptionist
• Regina Claire as a Newspaper Reporter
• John Robert Martin as Detective McCall
• Don Nagel as Detective Dennis
• John Avery as a Police Doctor