The Bait

Year: 1973

Runtime: 78 mins

Language: English

Director: Leonard Horn

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Tracy Fleming, a widowed police officer and mother, has become a plain‑clothes operative. After six women are raped and murdered, she volunteers to go undercover, deliberately painting herself as bait to draw the predator’s attention, turning the hunter into the hunted. The investigation builds to a brutal, life‑or‑death showdown with the killer.

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