No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1983, on the registry's reading: registration LP3883 of 1954 by Howco Productions, Inc was not renewed in the volumes searched. Record.
Check before citing the shot count. Few shot boundaries: 40 shots in 1:11:12 is under one a minute. The detector misses cuts on dark, faded or damaged prints and treats dissolves as continuous; the count is a floor, not a measurement. A 12:18 shot at 45:20 (shot 18): either a static hold or a run of missed cuts. Treat it as unverified.
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40 shots over 1:11:12, read from the Internet Archive copy JailBait (JailBait.mp4, 560×380, 29.97 fps). Shot boundaries by PySceneDetect's adaptive detector; each frame links to the Archive's player at that second. Registry dossier: Jail BaitNo renewal found. JSON
Measurements: black-and-white film on its keyframes (0 of 40 shots judged colour), average shot 106.8s long, a frontal face detected in 40% of keyframes. Shots are detected automatically and each is represented by its midpoint frame.
Released 1954 (Internet Archive).
4 beats in 3 sequences, cut automatically at shot boundaries scored on picture change, pauses in speech, topic shifts, on-screen text and cutting rhythm (each beat says why it starts where it does). Each is annotated by a vision-language model from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in it, as observations with evidence; anything the frames and lines do not support is left null. Machine annotation (Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct), checked automatically: quotes must be verbatim, names must be spoken, "visible" events are sampled to a second model. 4 of 4 beats annotated, 4 passed the checks, 0 flagged.
Beats
Passages cut at shot boundaries and annotated by a machine from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in them. Each beat says why it starts where it does and what was checked; sequences are visual groups, not scenes.
Model synopsis: A man is released from police custody after his sister posts bail, but he is warned about carrying a gun and associating with a criminal named Brady. Later, he visits a bar where he is recognized and confronted by police officers.
Named: Inspector Johns (t:2:23), Miss Gregor (t:2:20), Don Gregor (t:2:23), Dr. Gregor (t:9:30). 8 people observed.
Model synopsis: A man in a dark suit stands in a kitchen, reaching into a cabinet. The kitchen contains a stove, a refrigerator, and patterned wallpaper.
Model synopsis: Two women confront each other in a room, one holding a gun; a man enters with a basin; later, two men are in an office, one on the phone. A doctor discusses a completed surgery and gives instructions for aftercare, warning of consequences if ignored.
A woman holds a gun while talking to another woman. [frame:1]
A man enters a room holding a basin. [frame:3]
Two men are in an office; one is on the phone, the other stands beside him. [frame:4]
Model synopsis: A man with bandages is unmasked in a room as police arrive; the doctor claims he is his husband, but a witness identifies him as the killer. The film ends with a title card.
A man with bandages sits as a doctor and a woman look on. [frame:1]
The doctor touches the bandaged man's head. [frame:2]
Police officers and a woman stand around the seated bandaged man. [frame:3]
1 more under Evidence and details.
Named: Doc (t:65:18), Marilyn (t:65:18), Brady (t:66:06), Miss Willis (t:68:45), Inspector (t:68:13). 6 people observed.
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 680 segments kept, 153 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.
2:23 I'm Inspector Johns. This is Detective Lieutenant Lawrence. How do you do? I hope I'm happy to know you. You put up the bail for your brother? Yes.
2:34 Of course you realize, Miss Gregor, that if your brother fails to show up for trial, you will forfeit the bail money. Inspector, Don is no criminal. Well, that'll be established later. He was carrying a gun. There are much worse crimes. Carrying a gun can be a dangerous business. So can building a skyscraper.
2:52 Your brother had no license to carry that gun, Miss Gregor. It's against the law.
4:09 Wish I could have held on to him a little longer. I think you're wrong about him, Inspector. He's mixed up with Brady all right. I stake my passion on that. It's too bad, too, his father being what he is. How can a great doctor have such a jerk for a son? The sins of the father? No, Dr. Gregor's a great man, both in his personal life and his business life. Sounds like a man I'd like to meet.
4:34 You probably will next time we pick up Don Gregor.
6:32 I'm over 21. I know what I'm doing. You know what you're doing.
6:35 I wonder if you even realized what you're doing. I wonder if you realized how proud Father would be of you if he knew. Oh, not that routine again. Do you know what I would do to him?
7:32 Why are you taking that gun? Why, it might be walking down a dark street and then a robber might jump at me. I want to be protected. I just paid a thousand dollars bail because you carried one of those things tonight. Well, sister, that was very sisterly of it. You know that gun is jailbait.
9:36 You know that I had to remodel that patient's entire face? And it was strenuous and very, very complicated.
9:45 Plastic surgery at times seems to me to be very, very complicated. Father, Don is... The inspector thinks that Don is headed for serious trouble. But don't worry about that, because he'll all straighten himself out nicely. Don isn't really a bad boy. A little wild, perhaps, yes. Maybe I gave him too much in his youth.
11:43 You got rid of that stuff fast. It's the way I work. Fast.
11:49 They took my picture and fingerprints. So what? They've had my picture in the file so long it's getting moldy. If anybody sees me, they can identify me pretty quick now. So you'll just have to be real careful, like me.
12:05 You carrying a rod now? Sure. Slip it to me quick. What?
12:09 like I say. You aren't very particular about the kind of customers you serve, are you, Jimmy? Since we're off duty officially, I guess the beer wouldn't hurt, eh, Bob? Sounds good to me. You know, this fellow's face looks sort of familiar to me. Lay off me. Yeah, like we might have met him
12:39 You're raising your voice. Cops all alike. Yeah, like crooks. They're all alike. On you to your grave. Yeah, I don't try to keep you from getting to your grave too early. Why are you following me? What makes you think you're so important we'd want to follow you? Your presence is enough. Oh, did you hear that, Bob? You know, I would have sworn that the license for this bar says that the public is invited. Oh, Jimmy, come on with those beers, will you? Yeah, here we are.
13:10 Why don't you beat it and leave me alone? I'm not doing anything. Too bad your father's such a fine man. He'll leave my father out of this. Yeah, he's really a great guy. I wish he could be left out of it. I'm not responsible for bringing him in on this. You are. You know, you're a really pretty low character. All right, let him go. Go on, get out of here. I'm sorry.
13:51 That's no way to talk to a cop, boy. You got a lot to learn. He made me sore. He was out to get you sore. Forget the cop. Come on, we got work to do. I'll get him if it's the last thing I ever do. I said forget the cop. Let's go. Where to? What do you mean, where to? Just that, where to? The Monterey Theater, the payroll, remember?
14:15 Yeah, I forgot. Look, maybe we ought to call it off this time. You ain't gonna chicken out on me, are you? No, it isn't that.
14:25 That cop has me riled. I might get trigger happy. So, maybe you'll have to get trigger happy. Witnesses can identify pictures, and the cops have both our mugs. I'm not gone. Oh, yes, you are. There's 20 grand on that payroll, and I want my cut.
14:42 You'll go or I'll fix you, but good with the cops.
14:45 Come on, get going. Maybe we should have called him. Brady's an old hand at being tailed. I don't think it would have done much good. When do you see the doctor? Tomorrow morning at his office. I'd like to be there. You will be.
16:13 That was Billy Green spending an evening in Maggie Murphy's home.
16:16 And now, two quiet people, Cotton Watts and Chick. You know, Cotton, I'm making a picture called the lion tamer. The lion tamer? Uh-huh. The name of one kind of lion I'll mess with. What kind's that? Ooh, that's a dandelion.
16:36 is meet me at the zoo in the morning at nine o'clock. Yeah, with the rest of the monkeys. With the rest of the monkeys. Yeah, I'll bring my grandpa with me.
16:44 I want to get a moving picture of you in the lion's cage. Well, if you ever do get a picture of me in a lion's cage, you'll be moving, all right. Oh, Cotton, the lion can't hurt you. He can't hurt me. I know what he'd make me hurt myself.
17:00 Why, the lion's tame. He'll eat right off your hand. Eat off your hand and off your leg, too. I know them cats. Oh, but you don't understand, Cotton.
17:11 The lion was raised on milk. Raised on milk? I was too, but I eat pork chops now. Why, he can't bite you. Now, how come he can't bite me? He hasn't got a tooth in his head. I know, but he can gum me to death. I don't want to gnaw it on you.
17:28 Now, all I want to do is snap you as you enter the lion's cage. You just want to snap me as I enter? Yes. Well, you better snap me as I enter, because you will never be able to focus me when I start out. Because I'm Alabama bound.
19:16 All right, now listen carefully and there won't be any slip-up. The only one in there is a night watchman and he probably knows the safe combination. The payroll for a whole chain of theaters is in that safe. Calm down, nerves can blow the whole show.
19:31 Shoot first if I give the signal and ask questions later.
19:36 All right, Brady. Let's get this over with. Check your gun first.
26:38 Sorry to get you up, Inspector. That's all right. My job doesn't seem important to a lot of people, but it's important to me. What's it all about?
26:52 How is she, Doc? Painted. Just a flesh wound. More shock than anything. When can we talk to her?
26:59 I suggest you wait until morning. She'll be up and around by then.
27:03 More than I can say for the old boy back there. Dead? Couldn't be any deader. She saw the man, though. How do you know? She came too far a moment. Mumbled it. See you later. Thanks, Doc. Where's the body, McCall? McCall?
30:05 Honey, that's bad business, cop killing. So what? They bleed like anybody else. Yeah, I know, honey, but... No buts about it. It's done and that's that. Besides the chance I was recognized, some dumb dame had to still be in the place.
31:56 Did you actually see this man shoot Mac? Yes, sir. The other one was too busy shooting at me. Thanks for your help, Miss Willis.
32:04 I'm only too glad to have been of any help at all.
32:06 I wasn't very brave. I fainted early in the game. Bob, will you see that Miss Willis gets safely home? Why, sure thing. Miss Willis, I may have to call on you again later.
35:37 The night watchman. Dick Brady and I held up the Monterey Theater chain. A girl saw us. In the excitement, the night watchman went for his gun. After that, it was either him or me.
38:26 He was here? - Yes. - Where is he now? He will be with you soon. He has promised to turn himself over to you. And I have promised to do all I can to help him. Of course you know that your son shot and killed a policeman. Yes.
38:42 Sorry it had to happen, Doctor. Thank you. If you have...
38:47 Nothing further to discuss with me. I'm afraid the strain has been a bit too much. Of course, I understand. Goodbye, Doctor. Thank you.
42:04 The citywide hunt continues for the two men who shot and killed Paul McKenna, night watchman of the Monterey Theater chain.
42:09 McKenna was killed during a holdup which netted the killers nearly $25,000 in the 12 Peter Chain payroll money.
42:15 The two men have been identified by eyewitnesses as being Vic Brady, a petty gangster, and Don Gregor, son of the world famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor.
42:25 It has been established that Don Gregor did the actual pulling of the trigger to set McKenna, a retired police officer, to his death.
44:07 It's time of night. People just think of a car backfiring. Maybe you shouldn't have done that. Maybe I should have let him go to the cops. Maybe I should have let him put my neck in the noose.
44:18 Maybe I should give you what I just gave him.
44:20 Oh, Big, honey, I'm with you all the way. What are you going to do with him? I'll get rid of him, of course. Where? The river. Where else? Now?
44:40 Where are you going with him? Get him out of the way for the time being.
45:11 I don't like dead men cluttering up my place.
45:13 I want him out of here. You better shut that trap of yours or you'll be joining him.
45:20 So you've closed this lot. So what? They know you're in on the theater job. You're as good as caught right now and with an extra murder to your credit.
45:30 Now quit needling me. You're just no good. For me, for yourself, or anybody else.
46:03 I didn't set you up in all this luxury just to have you walk out on me.
46:06 I pulled you out of that Main Street dive and made something out of you.
46:09 No, you're not gonna walk out on me. Try it and I swear you'll never walk out on anyone again.
46:15 So if they do pick me up, it's only a robbery rap.
46:19 I didn't kill that cop. Nobody will know about the kid there.
46:24 That's better, baby. I knew you wouldn't walk out on me. Oh, big honey, what are we going to do? I don't want you to go to jail. I ain't going to jail. How can you be so sure?
46:38 Some will turn up. It always does. It's about your place is in there, Files.
46:45 Vic, Vic, what is it? You hit it, baby. You hit the solution right on the head.
47:17 He didn't keep his promise to you. What he must be going through. Don wouldn't lie to me about a thing like this. He left my office to give himself up.
47:31 I looked everywhere I ever heard him mention. No one had seen him today.
47:37 Only I knew where Vic Brady left. He won't be showing his face around here either. The inspector may take me. He knows that I helped Don this morning and he wasn't happy about my actions. Maybe if I talk to the inspector. No, that's no good.
47:53 Because as he said to me, I am an accessory after the fact. But, but your practice... It'll be ruined. Oh, darn. Darn. How could he do such a thing? My life means little to me now. It's Don that we must think of it.
48:11 He didn't think much of us. But we must think of him.
48:23 Yes? Yes, this is Dr. Greger. Who? Yes, yes, I understand. But I must have assistance.
48:34 This thing is a physical impossibility to do by myself. I... All right. Seven o'clock this evening. Yes. Yes. Yes. Goodbye. Who was it, Father? That's Brady. He's got Don. He gave me an address. I have to be there at seven o'clock this evening. I'm going to call Inspector Johns right away. No, no. No, Brady says he'll kill Don if we notify the police.
49:01 So this time we've got to play the game his way.
49:16 Bob, why don't you do your shaving at home? Well, I've been home long enough to do it. You got a point there.
49:25 There he was, Inspector. Right in our hands we didn't get him. And I think the doctor was only doing what he thought was right. You gonna bring him there? Perhaps later. He's not the type to run out. Have you found out anything more about where Brady is staying?
49:37 Yeah, he hasn't been back to his apartment in three days. I got some in-station around there and some others following up some new leads. He's covered his tracks pretty well. Well, what about the woman angle?
49:46 If there is one, he's kept it pretty far in the background.
49:49 It isn't going to be as easy as we think. Well, I didn't think it was going to be easy. Boss, it's night time and technically you're off duty. Why don't you hop in that new used car of yours and take a run out to the Gregor home? You know, she's a mighty pretty girl. Funny you mention that. I was just thinking about it. Mental telepathy. Go on, get out there and have a look around. You think he might be hiding out there? Oh, he's too smart for that, but he might try to contact them. I'm sure the doctor will tell you if he has. And as I said, she's a mighty pretty girl.
50:19 my weakness. Go off, get started. And Bob, being a pretty girl, don't take any chances. Don Greger is a killer. Okay, Inspector.
51:17 Hello, Miss Greger. Oh, Lieutenant Larn. I just thought I'd drop by. Have you heard from Don? We'd have called you if we had. Well, do you mind if I stop in a minute?
51:26 As a matter of fact, I do mind. I have to go out and I'm already late.
51:30 Well, that's too bad. I thought I could be of some help.
54:59 You know, this can be a very dangerous operation, done in such a crude manner.
55:04 Doc, I've got little chance this way. I got a better chance the other. You're gonna give me a completely new face.
55:12 With a new face, nobody could ever identify me as having been near that theater. It'd be like a new life to me. So let's get going. What do I do?
55:42 I'm ready for your tricks. Well, you couldn't withstand the pain or stay rigid as you must if you were awake. Oh, think, honey, do what the doctor says. Shut up, you.
55:54 Okay. So I got to go to sleep. Keep the gun on him. One false move and you let him have it. Get me? Yeah, yeah. Sure thing. You'll be all right. I'll see to that. You hear that, Doc? Doc.
1:01:33 You have my son, as you say. Our lips are sealed for the crime we have performed... as well as for his crimes. But someday you're going to get caught.
1:02:09 You know, it's too quiet around here. Even the Commissioner's been off my neck for a whole week. I wonder where those two could have gone. Nowadays people don't just simply fade from the earth without leaving some trace.
1:02:22 Two weeks is a long time. Yeah, it's too long. I wonder where the doctor could have gone.
1:02:27 His daughter said he's resting out of town.
1:02:29 He said he was back today. I wonder if he found Don. I wonder if he's with him. You better get some thoughts about that good, Doctor. No, not the way you think. But I do feel the two weeks is too long. Maybe we'd better get out to the Gregor house. I'm glad.
1:02:48 Well, speak of the devil. Yes, doctor. Yes, we've missed you of late. Tonight? Why, yes, yes, we can get out there, doctor. All right, we'll see you later. Sit down, Bob. We'll get out to the Gregor house a little later. I wonder what the old boy wants.
1:03:18 What could he have planned? He knows we have Don. He doesn't know Don's already at the bottom of the river. He'd be too afraid to try anything.
1:03:26 But if he does, how could he or anyone else ever prove you were Vicks Brady?
1:03:31 He could say that he did the operation that destroyed Vic Brady. How could he prove it?
1:03:40 It's foolproof. Why, with a new face nobody could ever tell I was Vic Brady. When these wrappings come off tonight, baby, we're gonna blow this town for good.
1:03:52 South America, the foreign countries, where they'll live like kings.
1:03:57 Anything you want. For the rest of our lives.
1:04:58 On time, Doc? You appear to be a man who is usually on time. You got it right, Doc. Let's get these Christmas wrappings off and see the presents you gave me.
1:05:18 How sure can I be? Why, Doc, you got my word for it. Now, let's get with it. And, Doc, for your sake, I hope you made a good job. I know I made a good job. Marilyn, will you please get me the... the shears...
1:06:15 What are you up to now, Brady? Cuffer, you got a surprise coming. I don't know who you think I am, but the dark here will tell you I'm just another one of his patients.
1:06:26 Who's behind those bandages, Doctor? Yeah, Doc. What's behind these bandages?
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