Editing Ed Wood (section)

====''Jail Bait''====
Wood co-produced and directed a crime film, ''[[Jail Bait (1954 film)|Jail Bait]]'' (1954, originally titled ''The Hidden Face''), along with his co-writer/roommate Alex Gordon, which starred Herbert Rawlinson (as the plastic surgeon), [[Lyle Talbot]], [[Dolores Fuller]], [[Timothy Farrell]], [[Theodora Thurman]] and [[Steve Reeves]] (in one of his first acting jobs).<ref>{{cite news|first=Adam|last=Newman|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/05/04/muscleman-steve-reeves-dies/4b280cbb-72ea-463b-a06b-ab6a503ea89a/|title=Muscleman Steve Reeves Dies|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=[[Washington Post Company]]|location=Washington, DC|date=May 4, 2000|access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref> Bela Lugosi was supposed to play the lead role of the plastic surgeon, but was busy with another project when filming started and had to bow out. His replacement, Herbert Rawlinson, died the day after he filmed his scenes. Distributor [[Ron Ormond]] changed the title from ''The Hidden Face'' to ''Jail Bait'' just before releasing it.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers|publisher=McFarland|last=Rhodes|first=Gary Don|year=2015|page=225|isbn=978-0-7864-2765-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eomACgAAQBAJ&pg=PA225}}</ref>