Jail Bait

After Marilyn Gregor bails her brother Don out of jail for carrying a hand gun without a licence, police inspector Johns tells his colleague, Lt. Bob Lawrence, that he regrets that Don is apparently involved with a minor gangster, Vic Brady, as Don's father, Boris Gregor, is a highly respected plastic surgeon. At home, after Marilyn and Don argue about his behavior, Don retrieves another gun he has hidden and leaves just as his father returns. Don heads for a bar where he meets Brady and receives his share of the profits from a robbery they have committed. Johns and Lawrence, who know Brady's hangouts, enter and frisk Don for weapon possession, but he has passed the gun to Brady. Don and Brady then leave for a theater to steal the payroll intended for the entire theater circuit. They break in and, at gunpoint, force the armed night watchman to open the safe containing the payroll. However, as Brady counts the cash, a secretary who has been working late surprises them. Brady shoots the secretary, and when the night watchman attempts to shoot Brady, Don kills him. Although Don is traumatized by what he has done, he drives off with Brady. A police car pursues them, but they manage to evade the officers. When Johns investigates the killing, he discovers that the night watchman was a recently retired police officer and that the secretary is not seriously injured. At his apartment, Brady tells his girl friend, Loretta, that he is worried about Don turning himself in to the police. The next night, after the secretary has identified Don as the killer, Don goes to his father's office and confesses to the killing. Dr. Gregor tells him to turn himself in, or he will. At that moment, Johns and Lawrence come to visit Dr. Gregor and after Don promises his father that he will surrender later, he leaves by a rear exit. In the alley, Brady surprises Don and takes him back to his apartment where they hear a radio report announcing that they are being sought for the killing of the watchman. When a contrite Don attempts to go to the police, Brady shoots him twice at point-blank range, killing him. Brady then hides Don's body in a closet until he can dump it in the river. After Marilyn informs her father that Don is missing and has not given himself up, Brady phones the doctor and asks him to come to his apartment. When Dr. Gregor and Marilyn arrive, Brady holds them at gunpoint and orders the doctor to change his facial characteristics so that no one will be able to identify him. Brady threatens to kill Don if the doctor refuses to cooperate immediately. Marilyn, a trained nurse, agrees to assist her father in the delicate surgery. When the doctor states that he will have to administer anesthesia, Brady hands the gun to Loretta and informs the doctor that Don is being held by associates who will kill him unless Brady contacts them in the morning. When the doctor goes into the kitchen for hot water, he discovers his son's dead body. Later, after the operation is completed, Brady's face is almost totally concealed by bandages. Expecting that Loretta will kill them, the doctor warns her that there could be complications resulting from the surgery and that she still might need their skills. Dr. Gregor then tells her to bring Brady to his home in two weeks for the removal of the bandages. Two weeks later, Brady and Loretta arrive at the Gregor house and promise to release Don once the bandages are removed. Johns and Lawrence, alerted by Gregor, also arrive. When Gregor removes the bandages, the newly constructed face he reveals is that of his dead son, Don. Johns has brought the theater secretary with him and she immediately identifies Brady as the man who killed the night watchman. After Brady looks in a hand mirror and realizes how Gregor has tricked him, he runs out and is followed by Johns and Lawrence. After catching up to Brady, Johns shoots and kills him. Brady's body falls into a swimming pool.