Ed Wood, after directing GLEN OR GLENDA and before doing BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, would give the world this film-noirish tale of a young man(Clancy Malone) who's led into the criminal underworld. His dad just so happens to be a plastic surgeon that's forced to do some facial reconstruction work to fool the coppers. Complete with stupid twist ending. Steve Reeves would get his start here before going on to become Hercules and other muscular hero-types in a few films. Wood's galpal, Dolores Fuller, returns from GLENDA in an equally clunky role. Despite the not so great acting a good slice of 50s crime melodrama.
This doesn't have anything to do with alluring underage gals so I'm guessing that term meant something else at the time. The posters make it seem that the female characters have much bigger roles than they actually do in the film itself and before viewing this I always thought it was one of those girl-gang epics.
The VHS I own of this cuts out a blackface sequence for being politically incorrect, which is pretty lame but they did restore a striptease bit which is nice of them. AKA HIDDEN FACE
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