Hothead Don Gregor teams up with smooth criminal Vic Brady for a theater heist, but when their plan explodes, Don’s surgeon dad gets forced into a wild face-swap scheme. Now with new identities but the same old problems, they learn bandages can’t hide bullets as Inspector Johns closes in!
Original title: Jail Bait (1954) Alternative title: The Hidden Face
🎬 CREDITS
Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Writers: Ed Wood (story and screenplay), Alex Gordon (story)
⭐️ STARRING
Steve Reeves (Hercules) as Don Gregor
Dolores Fuller (Glen or Glenda) as Marilyn Gregor
Timothy Farrell (The Violent Years) as Vic Brady
Herbert Rawlinson (final role) as Dr. Gregor
Lyle Talbot (Ed Wood regular) as Inspector Johns
Black & White version: https://youtu.be/FCdUssXwuKM
💡 WHY IT’S ICONIC
🎥 Shot in just 4 days on a shoestring budget!
🤯 Features cinema’s most unexpected surgical heist
📽️ Preserved by the Library of Congress for cultural significance
✂️ Rare early role for bodybuilding legend Steve Reeves
