Alex Jr. Baby Toys 4-pc. Set

Baby Take a Bow is obviously remembered today because it provided a little bundle of dynamite named Shirley Temple with her first starring role. To audience of the time, Baby clearly struck a chord, with Temple's cuteness, resourcefulness, and sunny disposition (not to mention talent) offering an antidote to the gloom of the Depression. As anything other than a vehicle for the young star, however, Baby Take a Bow falls quite short. True, James Dunn turns in a fine performance, and Claire Trevor's...

Jail Bait was Edward D. Wood Jr.'s first attempt at making a mainstream movie. Previously, he'd directed, written, and starred in Glen or Glenda, a very personal film about transvestism that was made for the exploitation film circuit. Jail Bait, however, was a crime film, really a film noir, made for Howco, a low-budget production company that specialized in genre entertainment and distributed its films to drive-ins and cheap but respectable neighborhood theaters. Co-written with Alex Gordon, Jail...

Christopher Connelly (Trauma) plays an archaeologist who desecrates the tomb of a 5,000-year-old god of cruelty and evil, and is temporarily blinded by lasers from a blue stone in the wall. Meanwhile, a sightless old woman gives his daughter, Susie (Brigitta Boccoli), an identical stone -- the Evil Eye -- in a town square. Back in New York, Susie's eyes start glowing blue as she plays with her brother, Tommy (Giovanni Frezza), and her babysitter, Jamie Lee (Cinzia De Ponti). Everything goes haywire...