What do the two movies above have in common?
Steve Reeves!
I was frankly shocked to see muscleman icon and ultimate screen Hercules Steve Reeves show up in an Ed Wood movie, but he did. The movie Jail Bait is a somewhat tedious crime melodrama about a rich kid mixing with the wrong folks, doing some murder along the way, and paying the price. The movie has a fun twist ending you can see coming a pretty long ways away, but it's not terrible. Getting to the ending can be a bit of drudgery, but Steve Reeves helps that quite a bit.
He plays a police detective, the sidekick to Lyle Talbot as they wander around trying to solve a robbery-homicide. He even takes his shirt off in the office for no particularly good reason, save I'm sure that some beefcake might drag in a few more ticket buyers. This movie also has a completely random stripper act in the middle of the plot, which as far as I can tell isn't connected to the movie proper at all. So if Steve is ordered to take off his shirt, it's all in the spirit of this exploitation flick.
Anyway, if you want to see Steve Reeves before the beard, check this movie out. He's a handsome dude, but the beard really amps up his he-man credentials quite a bit.
If you want to see Steve (Not-Yet-Hercules) Reeves in shirtless action, check out this link
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