Editor's Note
Two notable noirish action movies are collected here. Long before Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS came THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY (1959). A young Steve McQueen stars in this drama about a hastily formed gang of eccentric hoods, who plan the perfect heist only to botch the execution, setting them at each other's throats and sending them all scrambling to save their own skins.JAIL BAIT is a product of the wonderfully deranged mind of Edward D. Wood, Jr., widely acknowledged to be one of the worst directors who ever lived. This grimy drama about criminals sleazing around a crummy little town was conceived as his homage to the TV series DRAGNET and the film noir of the 1930s and 1940s; Wood developed this vehicle for stars Steve Reeves and Delores Fuller, his wife. The story is about a young criminal who kills a cop and has plastic surgery to alter his face. The film's title, however, is misleading; the only mention of "jail bait" in the film is made in reference to a gun.
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