The Baby (1972)
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83% of critics liked it
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57% of users liked it
(284 ratings)
TV-movie perennial Ted Post served as director for the low-budget theatrical feature The Baby. Ruth Roman plays a boozy nutcase who, out of hatred for the husband who ran out on her years earlier, forces her teenaged son (David Manzy) to dress and behave like an infant. Social worker Ann Gentry… More TV-movie perennial Ted Post served as director for the low-budget theatrical feature The Baby. Ruth Roman plays a boozy nutcase who, out of hatred for the husband who ran out on her years earlier, forces her teenaged son (David Manzy) to dress and behave like an infant. Social worker Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer), understandably put off by the sight of a fully grown boy chewing on his toes in a playpen, sets about to rescue him. When sinister forces try to claim the "baby" from Ann, she resorts to murder. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ted Post
- Written By
- Abe Polsky
- Genres
- Classics, Horror
PG,
- In Theaters
- Mar 1, 1973 Wide
- Studio
- Scotia International
Critic Reviews
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John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
'The Baby' is absolutely gaga. Or should that be goo-goo-gaga? It's a multiple-personality disorder of a film that vacillates among the extremes of weirdo exploitation, psychological horror and social-reform drama.
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Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com
Exploitation films don't come much stranger than 1973's The Baby.
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Lucius Gore, ESplatter
... the film has the look and feel of a TV cop drama, and a politically incorrect, outlandish storyline that couldn't be filmed today.
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Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews
You may find yourself giggling with disbelief or maybe just embarrassment
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Cast
- Tod Andrews
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Anjanette Comer
as Ann Gentry
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Marianna Hill
as Germaine
- Beatrice Manley
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David Manzy
as Baby
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Ruth Roman
as Mrs Wadsworth, Mrs. Wadsworth
- Virginia Vincent
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Suzanne Zenor
as Alba
- Michael Pataki
- Erin O'Reilly
- Joseph E. Bernard
- Susanne Zenor
- David Mooney
