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The Cry Baby Killer is a 1958 teen exploitation film produced by Roger Corman that marked Jack Nicholson's film debut. The film was out of print and difficult to find until 2006, when it was issued on DVD for the first time by Buena Vista Home Entertainment as part of its Roger Corman Classics series.

The Cry Baby Killer
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Joe Addis
Written by	Leo Gordon Melvin Levy
Produced by	Roger Corman David Kramarsky David March
Starring	Harry Lauter Jack Nicholson Carolyn Mitchell
Cinematography	Floyd Crosby
Edited by	Irene Morra
Music by	Gerald Fried
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release date	August 17, 1958 (1958-08-17)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

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Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Wallace panics after he thinks he has committed manslaughter while fighting with a group of teenage hoodlums. Wallace then takes a random man and woman, and the woman's infant, hostage inside a food shelter outside a popular local restaurant, and threatens them if they try to escape. This leads to a stand-off with a police force led by the sympathetic detective, Lieutenant Porter, who tries to avoid bloodshed. Meanwhile, an eager crowd of onlookers and a news reporter gather outside to see what will happen next.

Production

Corman later claimed that The Cry Baby Killer was the first film that he produced that did not return a profit, although he said that it earned back its from television rights. Corman also said that he had been abroad during preproduction while much of the script was changed by the producer. Corman returned to Hollywood two days before filming began and tried to reverse the changes, but was only partially successful.[1]

Cast

• Harry Lauter as Police Lt. Porter
• Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Wallace
• Carolyn Mitchell as Carole Fields
• Brett Halsey as Manny Cole
• Lynn Cartwright as Julie
• Barbara Knudson as Mrs. Maxton
• William A. Forester as Carl Maxton
• John Shay as Police Officer Gannon
• Ralph Reed as Joey
• Bill Erwin as Mr. Wallace
• Ed Nelson as Rick Connor
• Smoki Whitfield as Sam
• John Weed as Police Sgt. Reed
• Frank Richards as Pete Gambelli

See also

• List of American films of 1958

References

External links

• The Cry Baby Killer at IMDb
• The Cry Baby Killer at AllMovie
• The Cry Baby Killer at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Cry Baby Killer at the TCM Movie Database
• The Cry Baby Killer at Rotten Tomatoes

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