Blonde Bait

Blonde Bait

71 mins | Crime, Action, Adventure | April 1, 1956

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.

Blonde Bait

71 mins | Crime, Action, Adventure | April 1, 1956

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.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers Hammer Film Productions
Original title Blonde Bait
Directors Herbert Glazer, Elmo Williams
Writers Val Guest, Richard H. Landau

Cast

Beverly Michaels

as Angela Booth

Thora Hird

as 'Granny' Ramsey

April Olrich

as Marguerite Chavez

Richard Travis

as Kent Foster

Jim Davis

as Nick Randall

Paul Cavanagh

as Insp. D.N. Hedges

Betty Cooper

as Chief Matron Evans

Valerie White

as Prison Warden

Harry Lauter

as State Department Security Chief

Joan Rice

as Cleo Thompson

Avril Angers

as Bessie

Ralph Michael

as Julian Lord

Hermione Baddeley

as Grace, Gran's friend

Gordon Jackson

as Percy