Product Description

Double feature: The Great St. Louis Bank Robery (Steve McQueen 85 minutes) and Jail Bait (Dolores Fuller 71 minutes).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159264 in DVD
• Published on: 2004
• Released on: 2005-03-22
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 156 minutes

Customer Reviews

First great McQueen role / Worst Wood movie
While it's true that Steve McQueen's first starring role was in the not-very-scary fright film, THE BLOB (1958), it was in his very next picture that Steve proved he was star material.

In THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY (1959), McQueen hires out as "wheel man" to a small gang. In this true story, the bank heist quickly devolves into a hostage situation that ends disastrously. Shot on the actual location using non-actors who were both victims of and respondents to the crime, this picture has a realism that makes it worth seeing.

JAIL BAIT is a wretched Ed Wood work, perhaps his worst. This one doesn't have the panache or amusing qualities of GLEN OR GLENDA? or PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Remembered these days primarily for muscleman Steve Reeves (who has a peripheral role), it's the story of a thug who blackmails a plastic surgeon into changing his facial appearance in an effort to evade the police.


Also recommended:
Steve McQueen took his TV western experience with him when he appeared in the John Sturges classic, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960). He co-stars here with Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn.

THE ED WOOD BOX is pink and made of paper, not wood. It has more Ed wood movies and bonus items than you'll be able to watch in one lifetime! (maybe) Owners of this collection who've sat through all of it have been known to suddenly burst out with such comments as: "Pull the string! Pull the string!" and "I'll bet my badge that we haven't seen the last of those weirdies."


Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.9) The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) - Steve McQueen/Crahan Denton/David Clarke/Molly McCarthy/Martha Gable/Larry Gerst/Boyd Williams/Frank Novotny

(2.4) Jail Bait (1954) - Lyle Talbot/Dorothy Fuller/Herbert Rawlinson/Steve Reeves (uncredited: Conrad Brooks/Ed Wood Jr.)