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Bait
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHugo Haas
Screenplay bySamuel W. Taylor
Hugo Haas
Produced byHugo Haas
StarringCleo Moore
Hugo Haas
John Agar
CinematographyEddie Fitzgerald
Edited byRobert S. Eisen
Music byVáclav Divina
Production
company
Hugo Haas Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 24, 1954 (1954-02-24) (United States)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bait is a 1954 American film noir, written, directed and produced by Hugo Haas. Haas himself, Cleo Moore and John Agar star in the film.[1]

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.

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