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.

A nearby police officer corners Jimmy, who then rushes into a room and takes a worker and a mother with her baby hostage.

Corman later claimed that The Cry Baby Killer was the first film that he produced that didn't return a profit, although he said that it earned back its budget from TV rights.

Corman also said that he'd been abroad during preproduction while much of the script was changed by the producer.

Corman returned to Hollywood 2 days before filming began and tried to reverse the changes, but was only partially successful.