Bait (1954 film)

Bait
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Hugo Haas
Screenplay by	Samuel W. Taylor Hugo Haas
Produced by	Hugo Haas
Starring	Cleo Moore Hugo Haas John Agar
Cinematography	Eddie Fitzgerald
Edited by	Robert S. Eisen
Music by	Václav Divina
Production company	Hugo Haas Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	February 24, 1954 (1954-02-24) (United States)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bait is a 1954 American film noir drama film, written, directed and produced by Hugo Haas. Haas himself, Cleo Moore and John Agar starred in the film.

Plot

Middle-aged Marko (Haas) is searching for a lost gold mine for nearly 20 years. To share expenses for a prospecting expedition he teams up with bright young Ray Brighton (Agar). When they find the mine Marko decides he doesn't want to share with his partner and plans to murder him. He figures that after the two of them spend the winter together with Marko's trashy young wife (Moore) in a shack far from civilization, he will sooner or later catch them in adultery, and he can use the "unwritten law" to kill Brighton and thus escape punishment from the law. But the plot backfires.

Cast

• Cleo Moore as Peggy
• Hugo Haas as Marko
• John Agar as Ray Brighton
• Emmett Lynn as Foley
• Bruno VeSota as Webb
• Jan Englund as Waitress
• George Keymas as Chuck
• Cedric Hardwicke as Prologue Speaker

External links

• Bait at IMDb
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• Bait at the TCM Movie Database