Beverly Michaels is a new find for me, and I must say I like her a lot! Here she stars as "Blonde Bait" from 1956, also starring Thora Hird, Jim Davis, Paul Cavanagh, and Richard Travis.
Michaels plays a London performer, Angela Booth. She is sent to prison when she tries to leave her possessive employer for her boyfriend Randall (Jim Davis). She winds up hitting him with a mirror, and his connections lead to her being incarcerated.
The U. S. State Department wants her boyfriend because he was a Nazi collaborator. Angela has secret plans to meet Randall on New Year's Eve at the Oxhead Inn so they can run off get married. In order to catch him, it's arranged that Angela escape with the help of "Gran" (Hird), an old-time prisoner. The plan is to follow Angela to wherever the meeting is to take place.
I thought this was a good film, a real B British noir. Michaels is different in this film from the last one I saw her in, Pickup, where she gave Ann Savage's Detour performance a run for its money. She played an abusive, trashy woman. Here she's a woman sincerely in love, who demonstrates some class and possesses humanity.
Thora Hird is a scream. Jim Davis, frankly, is pretty bad. It's no wonder when he returned from Korea, Bette Davis forgot she ever heard of him. He still needed some seasoning.
All in all, entertaining.
Michaels plays a London performer, Angela Booth. She is sent to prison when she tries to leave her possessive employer for her boyfriend Randall (Jim Davis). She winds up hitting him with a mirror, and his connections lead to her being incarcerated.
The U. S. State Department wants her boyfriend because he was a Nazi collaborator. Angela has secret plans to meet Randall on New Year's Eve at the Oxhead Inn so they can run off get married. In order to catch him, it's arranged that Angela escape with the help of "Gran" (Hird), an old-time prisoner. The plan is to follow Angela to wherever the meeting is to take place.
I thought this was a good film, a real B British noir. Michaels is different in this film from the last one I saw her in, Pickup, where she gave Ann Savage's Detour performance a run for its money. She played an abusive, trashy woman. Here she's a woman sincerely in love, who demonstrates some class and possesses humanity.
Thora Hird is a scream. Jim Davis, frankly, is pretty bad. It's no wonder when he returned from Korea, Bette Davis forgot she ever heard of him. He still needed some seasoning.
All in all, entertaining.