Jail Bait (1954, Howco Productions, Ed Wood, dir.)
From the producers of the notorious "Mesa Of Lost Women" comes one of Ed Wood's lesser-known stinkburgers, his attempt at film noir. Stars Clancy Malone, Timothy Farrell -- who we all know from "Racket Girls" and "Violent Years" -- the redoubtable Lyle Talbot, a young Steve Reeves, and Wood's main squeeze Delores Fuller.
The son of a famous L.A. plastic surgeon gets mixed up with a local hood, and shoots a night watchman in a robbery; hilarity (of a sort) ensues.
Also features that same jangly, spastic fake flamenco guitar thrashing and piano-stabbing music that was featured in "Mesa Of Lost Women" -- and I mean, it's THE SAME DAMN' MUSIC.
Mike Flugennock
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John Bladel
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I support doing this one -- but with the controversial (and very dull) "blackface" scene edited out. It's barely over two minutes long, plenty of movie left to riff.
If Rifftrax can edit "It's a Wonderful Life", then it can surely cut up an Ed Wood film as much as it wants to!
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Barry Goubler commented
"horribly racist blackface act that Ed Wood felt HAD to be done." Ed had nothing to do with that scene; it was taken from another movie and added by the producer. The original version has a burlesque act that was probably too hot for many theaters at the time.
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Mike Flugennock
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOFb30P32uc Ed Wood's attempt at crime noir from 1954. FIlm noir the Ed Wood Way. Co-stars Timothy Farrell of "Racket Girls" fame. Features the same faux flamenco thrashing, spastic piano-banging soundtrack as "Mesa Of Lost Women".
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[Deleted User]
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OH MY GOSH! I was going to request this movie! I changed my mind because of the horribly racist blackface act that Ed Wood felt HAD to be done.
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Mike Flugennock
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And btw, Ed Wood's "Jail Bait" is available for viewing and download from the public domain archive at archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/JailBait