Review: JAIL BAIT (Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller 1954)...
Don't bother, that is, unless you have a morbid curiousity about Ed Wood obscurities. This one's not noteworthy for script or performances, but informative for personalities and places.
Theodora Thurman - apparently no relation to Uma, this little-known actress did Vogue magazine and lots of ads in the early fifties. Not forceful with lines but looks good even by modern standards.
Steve Reeves - odd to see him in a Dragnet homage/ripoff, but he aquits himself with a respectable performance.
Dolores Fuller - bad actress but looks good. She later (as you may have heard) did better in film than Ed, having written songs for at least 4 of Elvis's movies.
Lyle Talbot - acting in hundreds of movies, he was a pretty decent character player in Film Noir cheapies for decades.
Scenes and locations - any fan of GLEN OR GLENDA would recognize various places, in that Wood was notorious for using his own one-bedroom house as a set. Wood's living room (in Dolores' fictional pad) was the same as in GLENDA and some furniture was moved around to allow the place to become the crooks' hideout.
Packaging: I got this thing as a DVD double feature with THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY with Steve McQueen brand new for $1.99. Buy with caution.
