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Blonde Bait (1956)

Directed by Elmo Williams, Herbert Glazer

Overview

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.

Length 71 minutes

Actors

Beverly Michaels | Thora Hird | April Olrich | Richard Travis | Jim Davis | Paul Cavanagh | Betty Cooper | Valerie White | Harry Lauter | Joan Rice | Avril Angers | Ralph Michael | Hermione Baddeley | Gordon Jackson