| The Baby | |
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| Directed by | Ted Post |
| Produced by | Abe Polsky Milton Polsky Elliott Feinman |
| Written by | Abe Polsky |
| Starring | Anjanette Comer Tod Andrews Marianna Hill |
| Music by | Gerald Fried |
| Cinematography | Michael D. Margulies |
| Editing by | Bob Crawford Sr. Dick Wormell |
| Studio | Quintet Productions |
| Distributed by | Scotia International |
| Release date(s) | March 1973 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Baby is a 1973 Horror-thriller film, directed by Ted Post and was written by Abe Polsky.
It stars Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor, and David Mooney.[1] It tells the story of a social worker who investigates an eccentric family which includes "Baby", a 21-year-old man who acts like an infant.[2] The psychological horror is considered as Cult classic.[3]
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Ann Gentry is a social worker, whose husband has been involved in a car crash, and takes up the case of the twisted and mysterious Wadsworth family, and takes a special interest in a member only called "Baby", a mentally impaired twenty-something who still acts and is treated like an infant by his mother and sisters. Ann is interested in Baby and wants to see if she can teach him to behave appropriately for his age group. The Wadsworth clan has been neglectful and abusive to Baby, but Mrs. Wadsworth has been extremely overprotective of him ever since his father left shortly after his birth, and isn't going to let another caregiver mess with her son. Eventually, Ann and her mother take Baby, and his mother and sisters come after them, but Ann and her mother kill them. We soon find out why she is so interested in Baby: so he can be a playmate for her husband, who was left with the mental capacity of an infant after his accident.
Scotia International released the film in March 1973 in a limited theatrical release.[4] Image Entertainment published the film in the year 2000 on DVD and VHS.[5]
The Baby was released on DVD with a new transfer from the original negative by Severin Films in 2011.[6]
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