Ed Wood directs Clancy Malone, Steve Reeves and Dolores Fuller in this cheapie noir involving a plastic surgeon’s son who goes on a crime spree.

A film set in eternal night, with constant inappropriate flamenco music. The random plot is not the worst out there but Wood’s florid dialogue, when put in the mouths of a cast of actors of wildly variable quality, just drains you. Should there be so much sexual chemistry between a brother and a sister? Can you perform a facial reconstruction surgery on an unsterile sofa? Wow, that stock footage blackface sequence is really crowbarred in and gallingly competent compared to everything that surrounds it! And no “jailbait” doesn’t mean what you bought a ticket for in this creaky, crazy world…

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Perfect Double Bill: Detour (1945)

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