Blonde Bait

Blonde Bait (1956) is a crime, action film directed by Elmo Williams, Herbert Glazer rated 5.8/10.

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.

Cast

Beverly Michaels

Angela Booth

Thora Hird

'Granny' Ramsey

April Olrich

Marguerite Chavez

Richard Travis

Kent Foster

Jim Davis

Nick Randall

Paul Cavanagh

Insp. D.N. Hedges

Betty Cooper

Chief Matron Evans

Valerie White

Prison Warden

Harry Lauter

State Department Security Chief

Joan Rice

Cleo Thompson

Avril Angers

Bessie

Ralph Michael

Julian Lord