Trapped

1949

1h 18m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Crime

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Mystery

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.

Directors

Richard Fleischer

Writers

Earl Felton(original story by)

George Zuckerman(original story by)

Earl Felton(screenplay by)

Stars

Lloyd Bridges

Barbara Payton

John Hoyt

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Top cast

Tris Stewart

Meg Dixon

Agent John Downey

Jack Sylvester

Chief Agent Gunby

Agent Fred Foreman

Bartender (uncredited)

Lucille Barkley

Betty Mason (uncredited)

Tommy Noonan

Bank Teller (uncredited)

Dick Gordon

Mr. Baker (uncredited)

Rory Mallinson

Agent Charles (uncredited)

Frank Sully

Sam the Bartender (uncredited)

Harry Antrim

Warden (uncredited)

George Barrows

Federal Agent (uncredited)

Ralph Brooks

Federal Agent (uncredited)

Lennie Burton

Lawyer (uncredited)

Steve Carruthers

Agent in Pursuit Car (uncredited)

Robert Carson

Bill Mason (uncredited)

Directors

Richard Fleischer

Writers

Earl Felton(original story by)

George Zuckerman(original story by)

Earl Felton(screenplay by)

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Try as I might, I am afraid that I just cannot take to Lloyd Bridges. His boyish good looks and finely coiffured hairstyle try, and try quite hard, but can't really make up for the fact that he just can't really act! This time around he is "Tris", a convicted counterfeiter who is recruited by the US Secret Service to help them get to the bottom of a ring that is flooding the place with dodgy bills. Eventually agreeing to help them, he escapes their supervision and rejoins his girlfriend Barbara Peyton ("Meg") and his old gang where he proposes a new, lucrative, scheme. John Hoyt is quite effective as the double-dealing "Downey" and Richard Fleischer keeps the first half hour or so quite suspenseful, but for some reason the thing just rapidly falls away as we head to a pretty flat denouement in an eerily lit trolley-bus hangar. Ultimately, it's an adequate crime noir, but the characterisations lack depth and I found the whole thing rather unremarkable.

Geronimo196709 Jul, 2022