Trapped | FILM NOIR | Lloyd Bridges | Thriller Movie | Crime | Full Length
Classic Movie in Full Length: Trapped - Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double cross them.
Trapped (1949)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Writers: Earl Felton(story), George Zuckerman(story)
Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 27 September 1949 (USA)
Filming Location: St George Hotel - 115 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, California, USA
Storyline:
The Secret Service of the US Treasury learns that a new batch of counterfeit bills has been in circulation using the plates that Tris Stewart, having completed three years of a ten year prison sentence, had used that led to his conviction. They are able to make a deal with Stewart, in consideration for early parole, to stage a "mock" escape so that he can help them locate the source of the counterfeit bills and hopefully recover the plates to shut down this counterfeit operation for good. In discovering that the plates had been sold by Stewart's deadbeat former partner Sam Hooker to one of their old associates, Jack Sylvester, Stewart may have other things on his mind, such as reconnecting with his old girlfriend, Meg Dixon, a nightclub cigarette girl who now goes by the professional name Laurie Fredericks, and together living off the proceeds that those plates and resulting counterfeit bills can provide. What happens with Stewart and Laurie will not only be affected by Sylvester and his handlers in the Secret Service, but also by the presence of Johnny Hackett, who, assumed to be a racketeer in the way he easily throws around money in the nightclub, has his eye on Laurie for himself.
Reviews:
"This neat little thriller was directed by Richard Fleischer at the beginning of his "noir" period. He got better at it after this one--the terrific "Narrow Margin" and "Armored Car Robbery"--but this is still a good one, if a bit too slow at times.
Although not quite as fast-paced as Fleischer's better-known thrillers, it benefits tremendously from Bridges' presence. He's very tightly wound in this one, and quite a bit more brutal than you would expect him to be, even playing a bad guy. Tragic figure Barbara Payton actually does quite well as his floozy girlfriend, and the sinister John Hoyt does an excellent job as a somewhat enigmatic character who turns out to be not quite what he seems.
Good atmosphere and some neat plot--and other--twists make this a good companion piece to Fleischer's later noirs, and definitely worth a watch."
- written by "fredcdobbs5" on IMDb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Trapped
Austria Die Menschenfalle
Brazil O Cerco
Canada (English title) Trapped
Denmark Jaget af T-mænd
Finland Poliisin satimessa
France Le traquenard
Greece (transliterated title) I pagis
Hungary Csapdában
India (English title) Trapped
Mexico La última trampa
Norway Falskmynterne
Portugal Fuga Para a Morte
Romania Prins în capcană
Soviet Union (Russian title) Попавший в ловушку
Spain Atrapado
Sweden Jagad av T-Men
UK Trapped
USA Trapped
West Germany Die Menschenfalle
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