Bait

Feb 24, 1954

1h 19m

★ 5.2

... The Door's Open ... Come On In!

Overview

A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Hugo Haas Productions

Bait Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Peggy

Cleo Moore

Marco

Hugo Haas

Ray Brighton

John Agar

Foley

Emmett Lynn

Webb

Bruno VeSota

Waitress

Jan Englund

Chuck

George Keymas

Prologue Speaker

Cedric Hardwicke

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.

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