Jail Bait (1937)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 1937-01-08
Director: Charles Lamont
Writers: Paul Gerard Smith
Language: English
Stars: Buster Keaton , Harold Goodwin (I) (1902–1987) , Matthew Betz , Bud Jamison , Betty André , Stanley Blystone , Bobby Burns , Allan Cavan , Harry Tenbrook
Runtime: 18 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Candidat à la prison (France, French Republic) , Jail Bait (United States of America) , Jail Bait , Esca per la prigione (Italy) , Me voy a la cárcel (Spain)
Plot: The police are baffled by a case of kidnapping and murder, and they have no clues to go on. A reporter is convinced that the crime was committed by the notorious criminal Sawed-Off Madison. The reporter asks his roommate, an office boy at his newspaper, to confess to the crime, in order to throw off the police so that the reporter can capture the criminal himself. The office boy agrees to the plan, but things do not work out as they two of them had hoped.
IMDB:tt0029061