Spoilers
I saw this when it first aired in 1973 and never forgot it--and for one particularly significant reason: right near the end of the movie where just as the attack dog was about to clamp its jaws around James Brolin's face, there was a power failure in my neighbourhood! My TV went black, of course, and in my now-darkened living room I shouted, "Oh, NO! Holy ****!" or something similar. I kid you not. I couldn't believe it!
I then had to wait many months and perhaps even a year or more before "Trapped" was eventually rerun as a late night movie and I finally got to see the ending! I often wonder how many other TV viewers in my area had suffered the same initial frustration that night, and perhaps even missed the rerun!
As for the movie's plotline: it's hard to believe that any department store would actually employ guard dogs to protect their premises in this way as it seems to me that if such a perilous predicament ever actually occurred to someone unfortunate enough to be trapped inside, it could very likely result in serious injury or death (imagine the lawsuit!) unless they stayed put in a secure location until the store re-opened, which Brolin SHOULD have done rather than smash his way through the place, enraging the dogs even further.
Notwithstanding the fact that personal cellphones were nonexistent in the 1970s, was it (or is it still?) standard procedure to disable a multi-extension (Centrex) landline telephone system after a store has closed for the day?
What if a security guard service had been utilized instead of dogs? How would such a guard be able to phone outside to get help due to some health emergency of his other than to smash a window and set off one of the alarms? Even worse, what if a hapless victim had become locked in on a Saturday night with no chance of being saved until the following Monday?
Then there was Brolin's foolhardy attempt to shoot an arrow at the continually leaping, snarling dog. How could he be sure that he'd kill it or even manage to injure it significantly to thereby enable him in his already dazed and physically weakened state to climb down from his high ledge, hobble or drag himself to the department store's locked front doors and pray that someone passing by outside would notice his plight at 5 a.m.? Good luck, buddy!
Goof: perhaps it was the film editor's blunder, but although one of the muggers clearly steals the wristwatch from Brolin's left wrist, it then looks as if he also snatches ANOTHER wristwatch from Brolin's RIGHT wrist!
I saw this when it first aired in 1973 and never forgot it--and for one particularly significant reason: right near the end of the movie where just as the attack dog was about to clamp its jaws around James Brolin's face, there was a power failure in my neighbourhood! My TV went black, of course, and in my now-darkened living room I shouted, "Oh, NO! Holy ****!" or something similar. I kid you not. I couldn't believe it!
I then had to wait many months and perhaps even a year or more before "Trapped" was eventually rerun as a late night movie and I finally got to see the ending! I often wonder how many other TV viewers in my area had suffered the same initial frustration that night, and perhaps even missed the rerun!
As for the movie's plotline: it's hard to believe that any department store would actually employ guard dogs to protect their premises in this way as it seems to me that if such a perilous predicament ever actually occurred to someone unfortunate enough to be trapped inside, it could very likely result in serious injury or death (imagine the lawsuit!) unless they stayed put in a secure location until the store re-opened, which Brolin SHOULD have done rather than smash his way through the place, enraging the dogs even further.
Notwithstanding the fact that personal cellphones were nonexistent in the 1970s, was it (or is it still?) standard procedure to disable a multi-extension (Centrex) landline telephone system after a store has closed for the day?
What if a security guard service had been utilized instead of dogs? How would such a guard be able to phone outside to get help due to some health emergency of his other than to smash a window and set off one of the alarms? Even worse, what if a hapless victim had become locked in on a Saturday night with no chance of being saved until the following Monday?
Then there was Brolin's foolhardy attempt to shoot an arrow at the continually leaping, snarling dog. How could he be sure that he'd kill it or even manage to injure it significantly to thereby enable him in his already dazed and physically weakened state to climb down from his high ledge, hobble or drag himself to the department store's locked front doors and pray that someone passing by outside would notice his plight at 5 a.m.? Good luck, buddy!
Goof: perhaps it was the film editor's blunder, but although one of the muggers clearly steals the wristwatch from Brolin's left wrist, it then looks as if he also snatches ANOTHER wristwatch from Brolin's RIGHT wrist!