Blonde Bait
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
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Oh, Brother! This is new US footage clumsily tacked onto the British women’s prison drama “Women Without Men,” in a failed attempt to make what?…an international crime thriller? This one is strictly for the morbidly curious and bad movie collectors. IMDB rating 5.6. Directed by Elmo Williams. Released in 1956 (US). Complete print (US TV rip) CAST NOTES: The US footage cast includes Richard Travis, Paul Cavanagh and Jim Davis. The UK footage cast includes Joan Rice, Thora Hird and Avril Angers. Beverly Michaels appears in the US and UK footage.
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- Director
- Elmo Williams
- Starring
- Beverly Michaels, Thora Hird, April Olrich, Richard Travis, Jim Davis, Paul Cavanagh, Betty Cooper, Valerie White
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