Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s 1954 crime tale is an early feature from a Grade Z filmmaker whose incompetently made movies are often more entertaining than their mainstream rivals. Alas, this isn't one of them. It concerns a young hood named Don (Clancy Malone, the assistant director of Wood's previous Glen Or Glenda?) who learns the hard way not to hang out with hardened criminals such as Vic Brady (oily Timothy Farrell from Test Tube Babies). Lyle Talbot (She Shoulda Said 'No"!) and future Superman Steve Reeves are cops, with Mona McKinnon from Mesa Of Lost Women as a witness to murder. Also from Mesa is cartoon scorer Hoyt Curtin's maddeningly repetitious flamenco guitar. Featuring a plastic surgery finale that could only have been hatched by the mind of Ed Wood.
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