The Bait (1973 film)

The Bait
Genre	Drama
Written by	Gordon Cotler Don Mankiewicz
Directed by	Leonard Horn
Starring	Noam Pitlik Donna Mills
Music by	Jack Elliott Allyn Ferguson
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Leonard Goldberg Aaron Spelling
Producer	Peter Nelson
Production locations	20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California Downtown, Los Angeles, California Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles County Music Center - 135 N. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California City National Plaza, 525 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, California 5th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California 1326 Londonderry View Dr, Los Angeles, California 560 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California W. Pico Blvd. and Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, California
Cinematography	Gert Andersen
Editors	Leon Carrere Neil Travis
Running time	78 minutes
Production companies	ABC Circle Films Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	March 13, 1973 (1973-03-13)

The Bait is a television film about LAPD Detective Tracy Fleming, who is out to catch a serial killer preying on women in Los Angeles. Filmed in 1971 and released in 1973, it stars Donna Mills. The film was based on former police officer Dorothy Uhnak's first novel, also titled The Bait, which won the MWA's Edgar for Best First Novel. She was reportedly embarrassed over the liberties taken with her work by this film. The film itself was the pilot for an unlaunched weekly TV series.

The Ledger, a later book by Ms. Uhnak featuring the same character, NYPD Detective Christie Opara, was adapted into the TV-film Get Christie Love! It also took liberties with the source material, but was, nonetheless, successfully turned into a TV series the following season.

See also

• List of American films of 1973

External links

• The Bait at IMDb
• The Bait at AllMovie