Trapped

Watch: Trapped

Unrated

9/27/19491h 18m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ When a killer dreams of millions... and a girl to spend them on! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Richard Fleischer

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

film noir
counterfeit
treasury department
b movie
black and white

Cast

Lloyd Bridges

~ as ~

Tris Stewart

Barbara Payton

~ as ~

Meg Dixon

John Hoyt

~ as ~

Agent John Downey

James Todd

~ as ~

Jack Sylvester

Russ Conway

~ as ~

Chief Agent Gunby

Robert Karnes

~ as ~

Agent Fred Foreman

Jay C. Flippen

~ as ~

Bartender (uncredited)

Lucille Barkley

~ as ~

Betty Mason (uncredited)

Tommy Noonan

~ as ~

Bank Teller (uncredited)

Dick Gordon

~ as ~

Mr. Baker (uncredited)

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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.