The film stars Clancy Malone as the delinquent son of a famous doctor, and his involvement with a dangerous criminal.

As he prepares to leave, Don has a chance encounter with his father Dr. Boris Gregor, a famous plastic surgeon, at the front door.

Brady and Don break into the theater and ambush the nightwatchman, who is forced at gunpoint to open the safe but they are disturbed by Miss Willis, a bookkeeper who is leaving for the night, and Don shoots and kills the nightwatchman, while Brady shoots the fleeing woman in the back.

The two manage to escape the police, while at the theater it turns out that Miss Willis has survived the shooting, and she later identifies Don as the killer of the nightwatchman.

The following night, Don visits his father's office and confesses the murder to him; Boris urges his son to surrender to the police.

Two weeks later, Brady and Loretta arrive at the Gregor residence on schedule, but so do Johns and Lawrence, who were both summoned by Boris.

Jail Bait is set in Southern California, though this does not translate to the abundance of sunlight which is typically associated with the location.

The repetitious and nearly continuous soundtrack makes use of a flamenco guitar and a piano, with their sounds combined in what seems to be a free jazz composition.

[3] Craig sees the music as failing to add to the suspense of the film, instead giving the scenes using it a dream-like quality.

[3] The film was produced by Howco, a production company co-owned by Joy Newton Houck Sr. and J. Francis White.

[3][4] Clancy Malone was actually a delivery boy for a grocery store before he expressed interest to Wood about becoming an actor.

Jail Bait was his swan song, as Rawlinson died from lung cancer the night after the film completed shooting.

He was one of the last notable performers in the genre, as its popularity had declined following World War II and the Civil Rights Movement opposed attempts at revival.

Jail Bait was primarily released in areas of the Deep South, where blackface still held a nostalgic appeal.

Craig finds that Marilyn takes on the role of Don's wife, without any actual sexual tension between the siblings.