Key Details

Release StatusReleased

Release Date1972-12-22

Languageen

Runtime1h 29m

Production

Universal Pictures, Cinema Entertainment

5.1(13)

•1972•1h 29m

Trick Baby

"Sometimes even the players get played."

Crime Drama

Overview

Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

Director

Larry Yust

Writing & Screenplay

A. Neuberg T. Raewyn

Cinematography

Isidore Mankofsky

Principal Cast

13 credited

Kiel MartinWhite Folks

Mel StewartBlue Howard

Dallas Edward HayesDot Murray

Beverly BallardSusan

Vernee WatsonCleo Howard

Donald SymingtonMorrison

Don FellowsPhillips

Thomas AndersonFelix the Fixer

Clebert FordJosephus

Fuddle BagleyPercy

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