The story follows a young man who becomes entangled with a dangerous criminal gang. After a botched robbery, he undergoes plastic surgery to conceal his identity, leading to a tense showdown between law enforcement and the underworld. Known for its melodramatic style and Ed Wood’s distinctive low‑budget filmmaking, Jail Bait has become a cult favorite among fans of vintage crime cinema.
Film Details
Title: Jail Bait
Year: 1954
Genre: Crime / Drama / Film Noir
Director: Ed Wood
Starring:
Lyle Talbot
Dolores Fuller
Steve Reeves
Clancy Malone
Runtime: Approx. 73 minutes
Studio: Howco Productions
Country: United States
Format: Black‑and‑white
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Film Details
Title: Jail Bait
Year: 1954
Genre: Crime / Drama / Film Noir
Director: Ed Wood
Starring:
Lyle Talbot
Dolores Fuller
Steve Reeves
Clancy Malone
Runtime: Approx. 73 minutes
Studio: Howco Productions
Country: United States
Format: Black‑and‑white
#JailBait #EdWood #SteveReeves #LyleTalbot #DoloresFuller #FilmNoir #1950sCrime #PlasticSurgeryTwist #HerbertRawlinson #BlackAndWhiteFilm
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00:00:28The
00:01:53Let's go, bud.
00:01:59Take your hands off me.
00:02:01Move on.
00:02:02Move on.
00:02:02Move on.
00:02:05Move on.
00:02:22Move on.
00:02:24Move on.
00:02:27Move on.
00:02:31Move on.
00:02:57Move on.
00:03:00Move on.
00:03:13Move on.
00:03:14Move on.
00:03:16Move on.
00:03:29Move on.
00:03:30Move on.
00:03:59Move on.
00:04:00Move on.
00:04:12Move on.
00:04:14Move on.
00:04:17Move on.
00:04:29Dr. Gregor is a great man, both in his personal life and his business life.
00:04:32Sounds like a man I'd like to meet.
00:04:35You probably will, next time we pick up Don Gregor.
00:05:02Don Gregor.
00:05:59One for you.
00:06:11Go ahead and say it, but change the words this time.
00:06:13The old record's getting a bit worn.
00:06:15Do you want me to repeat it for you, word for word?
00:06:30Listen, sis, I'm over 21.
00:06:33I know what I'm doing.
00:06:34You'll know what you're doing.
00:06:35I wonder if you even realize what you're doing.
00:06:38I wonder if you realize how proud father would be of you if he knew.
00:06:41Oh, not that routine again.
00:06:43Do you know what it would do to him?
00:06:45Do you know what it would?
00:06:59The father doesn't know, and you won't tell him.
00:07:08No, I won't tell him, but he'll find out sooner or later.
00:07:14Probably later.
00:07:32Why are you taking that gun?
00:07:34Why, it might be walking down a dark street, and then robber might jump at me.
00:07:38I want to be protected.
00:07:39I just paid $1,000 bail because you carried one of those things tonight.
00:07:44Well, sister, that was very sisterly of it.
00:07:47You know that gun is jailbait.
00:07:57Don?
00:08:07I won't go bail for you again.
00:08:10Maybe you won't have to.
00:08:11I have other friends you know.
00:08:13By that, you mean Vic Brady.
00:08:16Maybe.
00:08:19Well, good evening, Don.
00:08:21Good night, Dad.
00:08:24Well, he was certainly in a rush.
00:08:28Don is all mixed up.
00:08:30He'll be all right.
00:08:31He had an engagement.
00:08:33Yeah, with Vic Brady.
00:08:40Ah!
00:08:42Oh, dear.
00:08:44Marilyn, my dear, how would you like to fix me a little refreshment, huh?
00:08:49Sure, Dad.
00:08:49Ah, thank you.
00:09:09How did you know?
00:09:10Although I've never even met the gentleman, but Inspector John, he seems like a fan of mine.
00:09:17This afternoon, we had a long telephone conversation earlier in the day.
00:09:22Well, here's a good drink for a parched throat.
00:09:26Mmm.
00:09:29You know, I had to perform a very difficult operation this morning.
00:09:34The victim of an automobile accident.
00:09:37You know that I had to remodel that patient's entire face.
00:09:41And it was strenuous and very, very complicated.
00:09:45Plastic surgery at times seems to me to be very, very complicated.
00:09:52Father, Don is...
00:09:53The inspector thinks that Don is headed for serious trouble.
00:09:56But don't worry about that, because he'll all straighten himself out nicely.
00:09:59Don isn't really a bad boy.
00:10:01A little wild, perhaps, yes.
00:10:03Maybe I gave him too much in his youth.
00:10:05That plus the lack of a mother's attention.
00:10:10God rest her dear soul.
00:10:13But Don isn't really a bad boy.
00:10:16Because Vic Brady is a hardened criminal.
00:10:18Yes, I know.
00:10:21He'll be the one to lead Don into that serious trouble that Inspector John was talking about.
00:10:26Perhaps.
00:10:30Perhaps not.
00:10:45Well, I'll promise.
00:10:55Bye...
00:10:56Bye...
00:11:10Bye...
00:11:17whiskey and soda well i see you got out of that scrape all right no thanks to you you left
00:11:22me
00:11:22holding the bag i was kind of gunning too close to the spot so what nobody saw us pull the
00:11:27job
00:11:28besides carrying a rod first offense ain't a tough rap to beat i was lucky this time where's my cut
00:11:37not bad for a night's work huh oh the dough's good you got rid of that stuff fast it's the
00:11:45way i work
00:11:45fast
00:11:49they took my picture and fingerprints so what they've had my picture in a file so long it's
00:11:55getting moldy if anybody sees me they can identify me pretty quick now so you'll just have to be real
00:12:00careful like me you're carrying a rod now sure slip it to me quick what don't argue do like i
00:12:10say
00:12:23you aren't very particular about the kind of customers you serve are you jimmy
00:12:27since we're off duty officially i guess a beer wouldn't hurt eh bob sounds good to me you know
00:12:32this uh well his face looks sort of familiar to me lay off me yeah like we might have met
00:12:37him
00:12:37recently what are you guys picking on me for you're raising your voice cops all alike yeah like crooks
00:12:43they're all alike on you to your grave yeah i never tried to keep you from getting to your grave
00:12:47too
00:12:48early why are you following me what makes you think you're so important we want to follow you
00:12:53your presence is enough oh did you hear that bob you know i would have sworn that the license for
00:12:59this bar says the public is invited oh jimmy come on with those beers will you yeah here we are
00:13:05you
00:13:05see just a quick beer before going home to a well-earned night's rest why don't you beat it leave
00:13:11me
00:13:11no and i'm not doing anything too bad your father's such a fine man
00:13:18if you leave my father out of this yeah he's really a great guy i wish he could be left
00:13:21out of it
00:13:22i'm not responsible for bringing him in on this you are you know you're really pretty low character
00:13:32all right let him go go on get out of here
00:13:42you too go on get moving
00:13:51that's no way to talk to a cop boy you got a lot to learn
00:13:55he made me sore he was out to get you sore
00:13:59forget the cop come on we got work to do
00:14:01i'll get him if it's the last thing i ever do i said forget the cop let's go where to
00:14:08what do you mean where to just that where to the monterey theater the payroll remember
00:14:14yeah i forgot look maybe we ought to call it off this time you ain't gonna chicken out on me
00:14:23are you
00:14:24no it isn't that
00:14:26that cop has me riled i might get trigger happy so maybe you'll have to get trigger happy
00:14:32witnesses can identify pictures and the cops have both our mugs
00:14:37i'm not gone oh yes you are there's 20 grand in that payroll and i want my cut
00:14:42you'll go or i'll fix you but good with the cops come on get going
00:14:48maybe we should have called him
00:14:49uh brady's an old hand at being tailed i don't think it would have done much good
00:14:53when do you see the doctor tomorrow morning at his office
00:14:56i'd like to agree that you will be
00:15:40but dad he's out there somewhere with a gun oh i know i should have called the inspector
00:15:45and told him but i i just couldn't make up my mind to do it
00:15:49i just can't see don doing anything wrong
00:15:52i just can't make up my mind to believe it
00:15:57where have i failed
00:15:58you haven't failed dad
00:16:01words my daughter
00:16:02just words
00:16:04the proof is in the fact
00:16:12that was billy green spending an evening in maggie murphy's home
00:16:16and now two quiet people cotton watts and chick
00:16:20you know cotton i'm making a picture called the lion tamer
00:16:24the lion tamer
00:16:25there ain't but one kind of lion i'll mess with
00:16:29what kind's that
00:16:30oh that's a dandelion
00:16:32now all i want you to do
00:16:36is meet me at the zoo in the morning at nine o'clock
00:16:39yeah with the rest of the monkey
00:16:40with the rest of the monkey
00:16:42yeah i'll bring my ground paw with me
00:16:44i want to get a moving picture of you in the lion's cage
00:16:47well if you ever do get a picture of me in the lion's cage
00:16:51you'll be moving all right
00:16:53oh cotton
00:16:54the lion can't hurt you
00:16:56he'll hurt me
00:16:57i know what he'd make me hurt myself
00:16:59why the lion's tame
00:17:01he'll eat right off your hand
00:17:03eat off your hand
00:17:05and over your leg too
00:17:06i know them cats
00:17:09but you don't understand cotton
00:17:11the lion was raised on milk
00:17:13raised on milk
00:17:14i was too
00:17:15but i eat pork chops now
00:17:17why he can't bite you
00:17:19now how come he can't bite me
00:17:21he hasn't got a tooth in his head
00:17:23i know but he can gun me to death
00:17:26i don't want to gnawing on you
00:17:27now all i want to do
00:17:29is snap you as you enter the lion's cage
00:17:32you just want to snap me as i enter
00:17:35yes
00:17:35well you better snap me as i enter
00:17:38cause you will never be able to focus me when i start out
00:17:43cause i'm alabama bound
00:18:02let me know how to do
00:18:12as you enter the lion's cage
00:18:12i take a look at my face
00:18:12all right
00:18:12now all right
00:18:13well i think hello to the lion's cage
00:18:15bye
00:18:16bud
00:18:19bye
00:18:21bye
00:18:21go
00:18:21bye
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00:22:18WHAT MAKES YOU THINK
00:22:19YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS?
00:22:20LET US WORRY ABOUT THAT
00:22:21BUT
00:22:24I'M THROUGH
00:22:25THE NIGHT
00:22:26I'LL BE ON MY
00:22:26WHOO!
00:22:39THE END
00:22:57I THINK I GOT HER
00:22:58BUT WE HAVEN'T GOT TIME TO HANG AROUND AND FIND OUT
00:23:00EVERY COP IN TOWN WILL BE HERE IN A MINUTE
00:23:07THE END
00:23:07COME ON
00:23:07GET A MOVE ON
00:23:09I SAID GET A MOVE ON
00:23:35THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO RAN
00:23:38THAT'S WHEN YOU STARTED
00:23:41AT 자신 Dance
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00:24:01THAT'S GROUP
00:25:47Did you call the inspector?
00:25:49Oh, yeah.
00:25:51Messy things, these shootings.
00:25:53Stick around a couple of more years.
00:25:55A bullet makes things real rosy compared to other methods.
00:25:58Yeah, I guess you're right.
00:25:59But this is bad enough.
00:26:01You think she'll live?
00:26:02Oh, sure.
00:26:03The bullet hit her high and passed right on through.
00:26:05In a couple of days, she won't even remember the pain.
00:26:07Well, you should have been a doctor, not a cop.
00:26:20You two, come with me.
00:26:30Take her away.
00:26:33Doctor?
00:26:38Sorry to get you up, inspector.
00:26:40Well, that's all right.
00:26:41My job doesn't seem important to a lot of people, but it's important to me.
00:26:45What's it all about?
00:26:47Robbery, attempted murder, and murder.
00:26:52How is she, Doc?
00:26:53Painted.
00:26:54Just a flesh wound.
00:26:55More shock than anything.
00:26:57When can we talk to her?
00:26:59I suggest you wait until morning.
00:27:00She'll be up and around by then.
00:27:03More than I can say for the old boy back there.
00:27:06Dead?
00:27:07Couldn't be any deader.
00:27:09She saw the man, though.
00:27:10How do you know?
00:27:12She came to for a moment.
00:27:13Mumbled it.
00:27:14See you later.
00:27:15Thanks, Doc.
00:27:16Where's the body, McCall?
00:27:18Back there.
00:27:27Right in there, inspector.
00:27:33Get these people out of here.
00:27:34All right.
00:27:43Louie, did you get a good shot?
00:27:46Fine.
00:27:47Take it to the office for the sunrise edition.
00:27:55Inspector playing hard to get these days?
00:27:57He's got a tough, thankless job on his hands.
00:28:00His publicity can get tough, too.
00:28:02Meaning?
00:28:03Meaning.
00:28:04I'm a newspaper woman.
00:28:05I'm here to cover a story.
00:28:07My people have a right to know this story.
00:28:10So, tell it to them.
00:28:11How can I tell it to them when the inspector won't let me in the room or even talk to
00:28:15him?
00:28:16Now, maybe you could help me.
00:28:18Yeah, maybe I could.
00:28:19But the inspector said no story.
00:28:21At least not for now.
00:28:22But, honey.
00:28:24Please, lady.
00:28:27I'm on duty.
00:28:33Well, it looks like they got what they came after.
00:28:36Yeah.
00:28:36Maybe they got more than they came after.
00:28:39I don't get you, inspector.
00:28:41Who is the girl?
00:28:43She's the secretary to the chain manager.
00:28:45She was checking the payroll list and knocking out some letters.
00:28:49That's why she was here so late tonight.
00:28:51The list had to be ready by morning for the payroll.
00:28:54She came in to check out with a night watchman and the boom was lowered on her.
00:29:00Clean through the heart.
00:29:01Poor old Mac.
00:29:02Oh, you knew him?
00:29:03Yeah, he was on the force for 30 years.
00:29:05Retired last year.
00:29:07Got a little bored with nothing to do, so he took a job as a night watchman.
00:29:11Then that makes our holdup boys cop killers.
00:29:14Let's ride.
00:29:15Cop killers.
00:29:15Cop killers.
00:29:46Just a minute.
00:29:47I'm coming.
00:29:58So what's with him?
00:30:00He shot his first cop.
00:30:02You're joking.
00:30:03Does he look like I'm joking?
00:30:05Honey, that's bad business, cop killing.
00:30:07So what?
00:30:08They bleed like anybody else.
00:30:09Yeah, I know, honey, but...
00:30:10No buts about it.
00:30:11It's done and that's that.
00:30:13Besides, there's a chance I was recognized.
00:30:16Some dumb dame had to still be in the place.
00:30:18I think I got her.
00:30:19You think?
00:30:20That's what I said.
00:30:21Why didn't you make sure?
00:30:22Make sure.
00:30:23Make sure?
00:30:24With this idiot standing over a cop's corpse and his gun still smoking and sirens blaring,
00:30:29any minute the place would be loaded with cops.
00:30:31You sound as crazy as he is.
00:30:33He wants to give himself up.
00:30:35He what?
00:30:35What do I have to do?
00:30:36Repeat myself all night?
00:30:38I said he...
00:30:39Oh, yeah, I heard you.
00:30:40I heard you the first time.
00:30:41Stop gibbering.
00:30:42I gotta think.
00:30:43What are you going to do about it?
00:30:45Shut up.
00:30:46What do you think it is I want to think about?
00:30:50Vic!
00:30:51Vic, he's gone!
00:30:59He got away.
00:31:00I can see that.
00:31:01I gotta get him before he can spill his story.
00:31:03You stay here.
00:31:05Stay here, he says.
00:31:07Where does he suppose I'd go dressed in this?
00:31:35Are you sure these are the two men?
00:31:38Yes, sir.
00:31:39Could you identify the men if you saw them again?
00:31:41Of course.
00:31:42Did you see the man who actually shot Mac?
00:31:45Yes, I did.
00:31:47Well, which one of these men did the shooting?
00:31:50This is the man.
00:31:52Don Gregor.
00:31:54I must ask you again.
00:31:56Did you actually see this man shoot Mac?
00:31:59Yes, sir.
00:32:00The other one was too busy shooting at me.
00:32:02Oh, thanks for your help, Miss Willis.
00:32:03I'm only too glad to have been of any help at all.
00:32:06I wasn't very brave.
00:32:08I fainted early in the game.
00:32:10Bob, will you see that Miss Willis gets safely home?
00:32:12Why, sure thing.
00:32:14Miss Willis, I may have to call on you again later.
00:32:16Of course, I understand.
00:32:46Hello, Don.
00:32:48Is Daddy, Dorothy?
00:32:50Yes.
00:32:52You suppose I could see him right away?
00:32:53It's very important.
00:32:55Well, I think that can be arranged.
00:32:57We don't see you very much anymore, Don.
00:33:00I've been rather... busy.
00:33:09You're signed to see you, Dr. Gregory.
00:33:14Go right in.
00:33:26Come in, Don. Come in.
00:33:35What is it, son?
00:33:38I'm in trouble, Dad.
00:33:41You want to tell me about it?
00:33:43Has it to do with that gun business last night?
00:33:47You know about that?
00:33:49Oh, yes.
00:33:50But I thought you'd get around to telling me about it yourself.
00:33:53Sooner or later.
00:33:59I...
00:34:01I wish it had been sooner.
00:34:06I'm in bad trouble.
00:34:08Well, the carrying of the gun can be taken care of.
00:34:12I'll vouch for you.
00:34:18It goes deeper now.
00:34:21I don't quite understand.
00:34:24I...
00:34:27I walked all last night.
00:34:30And until tonight.
00:34:35I couldn't think straight.
00:34:38It wasn't until night came again that my brain cleared.
00:34:43Funny thing about remembering.
00:34:46You never remember the right things until it's too late.
00:34:51I lived my whole life in the last 24 hours.
00:34:54Oh, don't stop me, Dad.
00:34:58The life I relived...
00:35:00wasn't very pleasant.
00:35:02Anyway, not for me.
00:35:06You insist.
00:35:08What I've done to you.
00:35:11But it's all over now.
00:35:15I...
00:35:17I...
00:35:17killed a man last night.
00:35:23Why did you kill?
00:35:26I don't know.
00:35:28I don't know.
00:35:29The gun was in my hand.
00:35:31I pulled the trigger and the man was falling.
00:35:35Do you know who the man was?
00:35:37The night watchman.
00:35:39Vic Brady and I held up the Monterey Theater chain.
00:35:43A girl saw us.
00:35:45In the excitement, the night watchman went for his gun.
00:35:49After that, it was either him or me.
00:35:52Better it had been you.
00:35:55Now what will you do?
00:35:57I don't know.
00:36:00Brady wants to kill me.
00:36:02That I'm sure.
00:36:05Maybe that would be best.
00:36:07It would be best if you turned yourself over to the police.
00:36:10And told of this Brady.
00:36:13I thought of that too.
00:36:16But Dad...
00:36:17It was I did the shooting.
00:36:19Not Vic.
00:36:22No matter what you've done, you're still my son.
00:36:26And if you'll turn yourself over to the police,
00:36:29I'll stand by you.
00:36:32But if you don't,
00:36:34I'll do everything in my power to see that you're apprehended.
00:36:44Yes, Miss Lytel.
00:36:46Inspector John's and Lieutenant Lawrence to see you, Doctor.
00:36:48Oh, yes.
00:36:50Tell them...
00:36:51Tell them just a minute, please.
00:36:55The police are outside now.
00:36:59Dad, don't turn me in now, please.
00:37:01You've got to help me.
00:37:03I'll go to them myself.
00:37:04They may help me later.
00:37:06But if they take me here...
00:37:08Please help me, Dad.
00:37:10Do you promise to turn yourself in if I don't do so now?
00:37:14Yes, Dad, I promise.
00:37:16Get into that back hall.
00:37:19I'll call you when they're gone.
00:37:36Miss Lytel...
00:37:38Will you tell the inspector to come in, please?
00:37:45Give me a go right in, gentlemen.
00:37:46Thank you, Miss.
00:37:47You'd better stay here, McCall.
00:37:54Sure thing, Inspector.
00:37:56It's nice to meet you at last, Inspector.
00:37:59Won't you be seated, gentlemen?
00:38:00Thank you, Doctor.
00:38:02I'm sorry this meeting couldn't be under different circumstances.
00:38:06Life is life.
00:38:08Many things are not of our choosing.
00:38:11But we must face that which has ordained us.
00:38:14Destiny is a strange and mysterious thing, my dear Inspector.
00:38:20You hear about my son?
00:38:21Yes, I am.
00:38:22He's killed a man.
00:38:24Oh, then you know it.
00:38:25Don has told me.
00:38:26He was here?
00:38:27Yes.
00:38:28Where is he now?
00:38:29He will be with you soon.
00:38:31He has promised to turn himself over to you.
00:38:34And I have promised to do all I can to help him.
00:38:37Of course you know that your son shot and killed a policeman.
00:38:41Yes.
00:38:42Sorry it had to happen, Doctor.
00:38:46If you have nothing further to discuss with me,
00:38:49I'm afraid the strain has been a bit too much.
00:38:53Of course, I understand.
00:38:55Goodbye, Doctor.
00:39:01Let's go, McCall.
00:39:02Thank you, Miss.
00:39:13They're gone. Come on out, Don.
00:39:18I never thought carrying a gun would lead to this.
00:39:21Honest, Dad.
00:39:22You must remember your promise.
00:39:25I always thought I was tough.
00:39:29I'll remember the promise.
00:39:31I couldn't go on living with myself, knowing what I've done.
00:39:37Goodbye, Dad.
00:39:40And...
00:39:40Thanks.
00:39:41You better go out the back door down into the alley.
00:39:44The darkness of the night will hide you.
00:39:47For a while.
00:39:48You better go out the back.
00:40:05You better go out the back door.
00:40:11Yes, sir.
00:40:12Oh, my God.
00:40:14You better go out.
00:40:17You better go out the back door.
00:40:18While you're lost, I'm sorry.
00:40:29Hold it.
00:40:55Where did you find him?
00:40:57His father's office.
00:40:58What now?
00:40:59When I know, I'll tell you.
00:41:02You're a fool.
00:41:05Maybe we're both fools.
00:41:0823 grand.
00:41:10That's how much of a fool I am.
00:41:14I'm getting out of here, Brady.
00:41:15You won't stop me.
00:41:16I'm going to give myself up, and I advise you to do the same.
00:41:21They know it was us.
00:41:24Stand by for your regular nightly coverage of world news.
00:41:30We're cop killers.
00:41:32They don't like that.
00:41:33You killed that cop.
00:41:36Get that.
00:41:37You pulled the trigger, not me.
00:41:40You're the cop killer.
00:41:44The inspector was at my father's office while I was hiding there.
00:41:49He knows it was you and me.
00:41:52You didn't get that girl.
00:41:55She identified us.
00:42:00Guns and gunmen headline tonight's news.
00:42:03The citywide hunt continued for the two men who shot and killed Paul McKenna, night watchman of the Monterey theater
00:42:09chain.
00:42:09McKenna was killed during a holdup which netted the killers nearly $25,000 in the 12 theater chain payroll money.
00:42:15The two men have been identified by eyewitnesses as being Vic Brady, a petty gangster, and Don Greger, son of
00:42:21the world-famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Greger.
00:42:24It has been established that Don Greger did the actual pulling of the trigger that sent McKenna, a retired police
00:42:29officer, to his death.
00:42:34You see, you're the cop killer.
00:42:38You won't go to the police.
00:42:40You'd burn.
00:42:43Maybe you're right.
00:42:45I've been in nothing but trouble most of my life.
00:42:49I don't know why I joined you.
00:42:53Money.
00:42:55My father would have been glad to give me anything I wanted.
00:42:59I don't know.
00:43:02Maybe for thrills.
00:43:06But I'm through hurting people, Vic.
00:43:11Too bad I have to talk against you.
00:43:13I don't want to.
00:43:15They have you dead to rights anyway.
00:43:19Don't you see, Vic?
00:43:22I've got to get this thing off my mind.
00:43:30Sure, Albert.
00:43:34I never thought it would lead to this.
00:43:40Don.
00:43:43You're not going anyplace.
00:44:04Those shots will bring the cops down here.
00:44:07Yeah, it's time of night.
00:44:08People just think of the car backfiring.
00:44:11Maybe you shouldn't have done that.
00:44:13Maybe I should have let him go to the cops.
00:44:15Maybe I should have let him put my neck in the noose.
00:44:18Maybe I should give you what I just gave him.
00:44:20Oh, Vic, honey.
00:44:22I'm with you all the way.
00:44:23What are you going to do with him?
00:44:25Yeah, get rid of him, of course.
00:44:27Where?
00:44:28The river.
00:44:29Where else?
00:44:30Now?
00:44:31You're a dumb dame.
00:44:33Later tonight.
00:44:43Where are you going with him?
00:44:45Get him out of the way for the time being.
00:45:10I don't like dead men cluttering up my place.
00:45:13I want him out of here.
00:45:15You better shut that trap of yours or you'll be joining him.
00:45:20So you've closed this, Ma.
00:45:22So what?
00:45:23They know you're in on a theater job.
00:45:25You're as good as caught right now
00:45:26and with an extra murder to your credit.
00:45:30Now quit needling me.
00:45:31You're just no good.
00:45:33For me, for yourself, or anybody else.
00:45:37That's it, Vic.
00:45:39Destroy everything and everybody.
00:45:41It's your style.
00:45:47Face it, Vic.
00:45:48You're as finished as a kid is.
00:45:50I wasn't in on your job.
00:45:52I'm not in trouble.
00:45:53Why should I stick around and take what's left?
00:45:56What is left?
00:45:57A has-been with a gun.
00:45:59A has-been?
00:46:01Baby, I've only just begun.
00:46:03I didn't set you up in all this luxury just to have you walk out on me.
00:46:06I pulled you out of that main street dive and made something out of you.
00:46:10No, you're not going to walk out on me.
00:46:12Try it and I swear you'll never walk out on anyone again.
00:46:15So if they do pick me up, it's only a robbery rap.
00:46:19I didn't kill that cop.
00:46:20Nobody will know about the kid there.
00:46:27That's better, baby.
00:46:29I knew you wouldn't walk out on me.
00:46:31Oh, Vic, honey, what are we going to do?
00:46:33I don't want you to go to jail.
00:46:34I ain't going to jail.
00:46:36How can you be so sure?
00:46:38Some will turn out.
00:46:39It always does.
00:46:41I'm glad your face is in there, Files.
00:46:45Vic, Vic, what is it?
00:46:47You hit it, baby.
00:46:49You hit the solution right on the head.
00:46:55My face.
00:47:13I couldn't find him anywhere.
00:47:17He didn't keep his promise to you.
00:47:19What?
00:47:20He must be going through.
00:47:22Don wouldn't lie to me about a thing like this.
00:47:24He left my office to give himself up.
00:47:27And unless he had been forcibly detained, he would have done so.
00:47:31I looked everywhere I ever heard him mention.
00:47:33No one had seen him today.
00:47:37Only I knew where Vic Brady left.
00:47:40He won't be showing his face around here either.
00:47:43The inspector may take me.
00:47:44He knows that I helped Don this morning.
00:47:47And he wasn't happy about my actions.
00:47:49Maybe if I talk to the inspector.
00:47:51No, that's no good.
00:47:52Because as he said to me,
00:47:54I am an accessory after the fact.
00:47:57But, but your practice...
00:47:59It'll be ruined.
00:48:01Oh, Don.
00:48:03Don.
00:48:04How could he do such a thing?
00:48:06My life means little to me now.
00:48:08It's Don that we must think of.
00:48:11He didn't think much of us.
00:48:13But we must think of him.
00:48:23Yes.
00:48:24Yes, this is Dr. Greger.
00:48:27Who?
00:48:28Yes.
00:48:29Yes, I understand.
00:48:31I...
00:48:32But I must have assistance.
00:48:35This thing is a physical impossibility to do by myself.
00:48:37I...
00:48:39I...
00:48:39All right.
00:48:42Seven o'clock this evening.
00:48:44Yes.
00:48:45Yes, yes.
00:48:47Goodbye.
00:48:49Who was it, Father?
00:48:50That's Brady.
00:48:50He's got Don.
00:48:51He gave me an address.
00:48:53I have to be there at seven o'clock this evening.
00:48:55I'm going to call Inspector Johns right away.
00:48:58No, no.
00:48:58No, Brady says he'll kill Don if we notify the police.
00:49:01So this time we've got to play the game his way.
00:49:08Marilyn.
00:49:11Do you remember your nurse's training?
00:49:19Bob, why don't you do your shaving at home?
00:49:21Well, if I hold long enough to do it.
00:49:23You got a point there.
00:49:25There he was, Inspector.
00:49:27Right in our hands we didn't get him.
00:49:28And I think the doctor was only doing what he thought was right.
00:49:31You going to bring him in?
00:49:32Well, perhaps later.
00:49:33He's not the type to run out.
00:49:34Have you found out anything more about where Brady is staying?
00:49:37Yeah, he hasn't been back to his apartment in three days.
00:49:40I got some men stationed around there and some others following up some new leads.
00:49:43He's covered his tracks pretty well.
00:49:45Well, what about the woman angle?
00:49:46If there is one, he's kept it pretty far in the background.
00:49:49It isn't going to be as easy as we think.
00:49:51Well, I didn't think it was going to be easy.
00:49:53Bob, since it's nighttime and technically you're off duty,
00:49:56why don't you hop in that new used car of yours and take a run out to the Gregor home?
00:50:01You know, she's a mighty pretty girl.
00:50:03Funny you mention that.
00:50:04I was just thinking about her.
00:50:05Mental telepathy.
00:50:06Go on, get out there and have a look around.
00:50:09You think he might be hiding out there?
00:50:10Oh, he's too smart for that, but he might try to contact them.
00:50:13I'm sure the doctor will tell you if he has.
00:50:15And as I said, she's a mighty pretty girl.
00:50:18Blondes have always been my weakness.
00:50:20Go on, get started.
00:50:21And Bob, being a pretty girl, don't take any chances.
00:50:25Don Gregor is a killer.
00:50:27Okay, Inspector.
00:51:17Hello, Mr. Gregor.
00:51:18Oh, Lieutenant Lump.
00:51:20I just thought I'd drop by.
00:51:22Have you heard from Don?
00:51:23We'd have called you if we had.
00:51:25Well, do you mind if I stop in a minute?
00:51:26As a matter of fact, I do mind.
00:51:28I have to go out and I'm already late.
00:51:30Well, that's too bad.
00:51:31I thought I could be of some help.
00:51:32Help?
00:51:33By involving my father in this?
00:51:35Miss Gregor, if you just stopped to realize,
00:51:38you'd see that it wasn't the police that's involving your father.
00:51:40Good night, Lieutenant Lauren.
00:52:09Who was that?
00:52:10Oh, no one.
00:52:11No?
00:52:12Are we ready?
00:52:13Yes.
00:52:14Oh, I've forgotten my purse.
00:52:15You go ahead to the car, Father.
00:52:17I'll be right along.
00:52:18Right.
00:52:46I'll be right along.
00:53:17I'll be right along.
00:53:34I'll be right along.
00:53:55I'll be right along.
00:53:55Who is it?
00:53:56This is Dr. Gregor.
00:53:58Oh, come in.
00:54:07I thought I told you to come alone.
00:54:10My daughter is a nurse.
00:54:11I need her assistance.
00:54:14Okay.
00:54:15But I don't like my orders disobeyed.
00:54:17My daughter is just as concerned over the life of my son as I am.
00:54:22I need trained assistance.
00:54:24My daughter is that assistance.
00:54:26And if it's going to be done, she will help.
00:54:28If not, then your life is in your own hands.
00:54:31Oh, come on, Vic, calm down.
00:54:33She's his sister.
00:54:34She's not going to do anything out of line.
00:54:36Yeah, maybe you're right.
00:54:38Sure I am.
00:54:38Shut up, you.
00:54:40Okay, Doc.
00:54:41What do we do?
00:54:42I'll show you.
00:54:45Take off your shirt.
00:54:47And your shoes.
00:54:49And stretch out on this couch.
00:54:59You know, this can be a very dangerous operation, done in such a crude manner.
00:55:05Doc, I've got little chance this way.
00:55:07I've got a better chance the other.
00:55:09You're going to give me a completely new face.
00:55:12With a new face, nobody could ever identify me as having been near that theater.
00:55:16It would be like a new life to me.
00:55:18So let's get going.
00:55:20What do I do?
00:55:21All right.
00:55:39What's that for?
00:55:40To put you to sleep.
00:55:42I'm ready for your tricks.
00:55:44Well, you couldn't withstand the pain or stay rigid as you must.
00:55:47If you were awake.
00:55:49Oh, Vic, honey, do what the doctor says.
00:55:51Shut up, you.
00:55:54Okay.
00:55:55So I've got to go to sleep.
00:55:58Keep the gun on them.
00:55:59One false move and you let them have it.
00:56:01Get me?
00:56:02Yeah, yeah.
00:56:03Sure thing.
00:56:04You'll be all right.
00:56:05I'll see to that.
00:56:07You hear that, Doc?
00:56:08She'll do it, too.
00:56:10Further than that, you don't know where your son is.
00:56:13I do.
00:56:14If those that are holding him don't hear from me by morning, you'll never see him alive again.
00:56:20I understand.
00:56:22I understand.
00:56:22And I promise you that no harm will befall you if you will do as I tell you.
00:56:28And, Doc, don't forget, it's your son that's wanted for murder, not me.
00:56:35Let's get on with it.
00:56:37All right.
00:56:38Lie down.
00:56:39Just be careful, Doc.
00:56:54Keep track of his pulse while I'm gone.
00:56:57You're not going anyplace.
00:56:58I'm going to the kitchen to get some hot water.
00:57:01I guess that's okay.
00:57:02I assure you that it is quite necessary.
00:57:05Go ahead.
00:57:05I'll be right behind you.
00:57:06That won't be necessary.
00:57:08The telephone is in this room.
00:57:09I can go nowhere.
00:57:10I can do nothing.
00:57:11Okay.
00:57:13Go ahead.
00:57:14Go ahead.
00:57:14Go ahead.
00:57:40Go ahead.
00:57:47Why don't you put that gun down?
00:57:50My father isn't going to do anything.
00:57:52He loves his son too much.
00:57:55Vic told me not to take any chances.
00:57:57And that's just what I'm going to do.
00:58:00Where is your father?
00:58:01He's been gone long enough to get ten basins of water.
00:58:17My father knows what he's doing.
00:58:19That's more than I think you do.
00:58:22I'll overlook that remark because you're needed here.
00:58:24But when this thing is finished, I'm off what's the use.
00:58:28Why don't you relax?
00:58:30Relax?
00:58:31Listen, you, I love that man and I'm not taking any chances.
00:58:35Love.
00:58:37I don't think you know what love means.
00:58:40If you did, you wouldn't feel that way about a cheap gunman like Vic Brady.
00:58:45Cheap?
00:58:47Cheap?
00:58:48Take a look at this place, sweetheart.
00:58:50Does this stuff look cheap to you?
00:58:52There's not a cheap bone in his body.
00:59:16So where will it all end?
00:59:18What are you going to do in a couple of years when that pretty face is gone?
00:59:22I'll worry about that when the time comes.
00:59:24You'd better, because he won't.
00:59:27He doesn't strike me as the sweet and gentle type.
00:59:31Oh, he does get rough once in a while.
00:59:34I did leave him once.
00:59:35But you came back.
00:59:37On the first bus.
00:59:39Why?
00:59:40I told you.
00:59:41I'm in love with him.
00:59:42Take it or leave it.
00:59:44If I were you, I'd leave it.
00:59:51I had a hard time finding your basin.
01:00:00Be careful, Doc.
01:00:03I ought to kill him while I have the chance.
01:00:05That's dangerous talk, Doc.
01:00:07Remember your son's life.
01:00:09Yes, my...
01:00:10my son's life.
01:00:18Now, will you bring me some clean sheets?
01:00:26There.
01:00:28It is done.
01:00:31Thank goodness I couldn't have taken much more of that.
01:00:35You made his face look like raw meat.
01:00:38It will heal in very short order.
01:00:41The dye will change the color of his hair.
01:00:43and he will be an entirely different man
01:00:46for the time the healing is complete.
01:00:50Now, I suppose you'd like to carry out the...
01:00:53balance of your orders?
01:00:55For instance?
01:00:56Tell us now that the surgery is finished.
01:00:59Nothing personal, Doc.
01:01:00It's great as orders.
01:01:02That isn't a very smart move.
01:01:04You know, infection can set in.
01:01:07And who would he go to if he didn't come to me?
01:01:10Well, my daughter and I are leaving now.
01:01:13He will awaken shortly.
01:01:15And when he does,
01:01:17I want you to be sure and tell him to come to my home in two weeks,
01:01:20at which time we will remove the bandages.
01:01:25I will leave this solution with you
01:01:27with which to bathe the bandages.
01:01:31You will merely follow instructions.
01:01:34You have my son, as you say.
01:01:36Our lips are sealed for the crime we have performed,
01:01:39as well as for his crimes.
01:01:41But someday you're going to get caught.
01:01:50Be sure and send him to come to my home
01:01:52in two weeks.
01:01:54His life will depend on it.
01:01:57I don't know.
01:01:58No, Vic said.
01:02:00Young woman, you have no choice.
01:02:03Come, Marilyn.
01:02:11You know, it's too quiet around here.
01:02:13Even the commissioner's been off my neck
01:02:15for a whole week.
01:02:16I wonder where those two could have gone.
01:02:18Nowadays, people don't just see me fade from the earth
01:02:21without leaving some trace.
01:02:22Two weeks is a long time.
01:02:24Yeah, it's too long.
01:02:25I wonder where the doctor could have gone.
01:02:27His daughter said he's resting out of town.
01:02:29She said he'll be back today.
01:02:31I wonder if he found Don.
01:02:32I wonder if he's with him.
01:02:33You probably get some doubts about that good doctor.
01:02:36No, not the way you think.
01:02:38But I do feel the two weeks is too long.
01:02:41Maybe we better get out to the Gregor house.
01:02:42I'm glad.
01:02:46Inspector John's.
01:02:48Well, speak of the devil.
01:02:50Yes, doctor.
01:02:52Yes, we've missed you of late.
01:02:54Ty?
01:02:55Well, yes, yes, we can get out there, doctor.
01:02:58All right, we'll see you later.
01:03:00Sit down, Bob.
01:03:03We'll get out to the Gregor house a little later.
01:03:06I wonder what the old boy wants.
01:03:11I don't like it.
01:03:12I tell you, that doctor's got something up his sleeve.
01:03:15You've got to go.
01:03:16I don't need you to tell me that.
01:03:18What could he have planned?
01:03:20He knows we have Don.
01:03:22He doesn't know Don's already at the bottom of the river.
01:03:25He'd be too afraid to try anything.
01:03:27But if he does, how could he or anyone else ever prove you were Vic Brady?
01:03:31He could say that he did the operation that destroyed Vic Brady.
01:03:34How could he prove it?
01:03:36I don't know.
01:03:38Maybe you're right.
01:03:41It's foolproof.
01:03:42Like with a new face, nobody could ever tell I was Vic Brady.
01:03:48When these wrappings come off tonight, baby, we're going to blow this town for good.
01:03:52South America, the foreign countries.
01:03:55I will live like kings.
01:03:57Anything you want for the rest of our lives.
01:04:03I hope you made me a real nice face.
01:04:06The one I used to have, I got used to it.
01:04:10I liked it.
01:04:12He wouldn't dare mess up that job.
01:04:14I'd kill him and he knows it.
01:04:15Sure, honey.
01:04:16Bet he did real good.
01:04:18I might even slip him a grand or two if he did a good job.
01:04:21That won't be necessary.
01:04:23He'll have a different kind of fee this time.
01:04:26Yeah, sure.
01:04:27Come on, get dressed.
01:04:29It's about time to pay a call on the kindly old doctor.
01:04:47Excuse me, Robin.
01:04:58On time, Doc?
01:04:59You appear to be a man who is usually on time.
01:05:03You got it right, Doc.
01:05:05Let's get these Christmas wrappings off and see the presents you gave me.
01:05:08Keep your eye on them, honey.
01:05:10When do you release Don?
01:05:13Don?
01:05:14Oh, yeah.
01:05:16Just as soon as we leave here.
01:05:18How sure can I be?
01:05:20Why, Doc, you got my word for it.
01:05:23Now, let's get with it.
01:05:25And, Doc, for your sake, I hope you made a good job.
01:05:29I know I made a good job.
01:05:32Marilyn, will you please get me the...
01:05:34the shears...
01:05:37will you just sit over here, please?
01:05:51You soaked the bandages, as I told you?
01:05:53Of course.
01:05:55Then there should be nothing wrong.
01:06:00Oh, I see we have some other guests for this evening's unveiling.
01:06:03The cops!
01:06:06Oh, take it easy, Brady.
01:06:09Brady.
01:06:11You got the wrong man, Copper.
01:06:13I don't know on him, Brady.
01:06:15What are you up to now, Brady?
01:06:17Copper, you got a surprise coming.
01:06:20I don't know who you think I am.
01:06:22But the Doc here will tell you I'm just another one of his patients.
01:06:26Who's behind those bandages, Doctor?
01:06:29Yeah, Doc.
01:06:30What's behind these bandages?
01:06:32Show them.
01:06:33A doctor's duty sometimes must be shown in strange ways.
01:06:38First, he has a loyalty to his patients.
01:06:41Then he has his loyalty to the law.
01:06:44And still another.
01:06:46Loyalty to his own family.
01:06:48I don't know who you police officers think this gentleman is, but he is my husband.
01:06:52A law-abiding citizen.
01:06:54I'll have you reported for this.
01:06:56We know one thing.
01:06:57No matter who he is, he's no gentleman.
01:07:00I've taken enough of these insults.
01:07:02Take these wrappings off, Doc.
01:07:06Did you bring the scissors, Madeline?
01:07:10Here they are, Father.
01:07:17Cut the gap, Doc, and get busy.
01:07:19Show these guys I'm not who they think I am.
01:07:32This man is not who you think he is.
01:07:39Be careful with those scissors, Doc.
01:07:41My face is still tender.
01:07:44And in need of a shave, too, I'll bet.
01:08:11There.
01:08:12It is done.
01:08:14But you see, Inspector, that is not Vic Brady, the man you expected.
01:08:24You're right, Doctor. It's not the man we expected.
01:08:29See? What did I tell you?
01:08:31Let anybody say they saw this face at the scene of any holdup.
01:08:35Come on, coppers, take a good look.
01:08:37See if you can identify me as Vic Brady.
01:08:40Well, then I take over here.
01:08:45Come in, Miss Willis.
01:08:50Can you identify this man?
01:08:53Yes, Inspector. That's the man that killed Matt.
01:08:58What, are you all crazy?
01:09:00Look at me again.
01:09:02The mirror, please.
01:09:05Perhaps you'd better take a look yourself first.
01:09:19No. No. No.
01:09:23This is my son.
01:09:26The man who killed the police.
01:09:28No.
01:09:29No.
01:09:32No.
01:09:33No.
01:09:34Let's go!
01:10:04Oh, my God.
01:10:34Oh, my God.
01:11:04Oh, my God.
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