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Trapped

  • 19491949
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 18m
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Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
CrimeDramaFilm-Noir
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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
1.4K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
38,531
9,758
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    • Director
      • Richard Fleischer
    • Writers
      • Earl Felton(story)
      • George Zuckerman(story)
    • Stars
      • Lloyd Bridges
      • Barbara Payton
      • John Hoyt
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Richard Fleischer
    • Writers
      • Earl Felton(story)
      • George Zuckerman(story)
    • Stars
      • Lloyd Bridges
      • Barbara Payton
      • John Hoyt
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    • 40User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Lloyd Bridges, John Hoyt, and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    John Hoyt and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges and John Hoyt in Trapped (1949)
    Russ Conway and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges and Renny McEvoy in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton in Trapped (1949)
    Lloyd Bridges in Trapped (1949)

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    Lloyd Bridges
    Lloyd Bridges
    • Tris Stewart
    Barbara Payton
    Barbara Payton
    • Meg Dixon
    John Hoyt
    John Hoyt
    • John Downey
    James Todd
    • Jack Sylvester
    Russ Conway
    Russ Conway
    • Chief Agent Gunby
    Robert Karnes
    Robert Karnes
    • Agent Fred Foreman
    Harry Antrim
    Harry Antrim
    • Warden
    • (uncredited)
    Lucille Barkley
    • Betty Mason
    • (uncredited)
    George Barrows
    George Barrows
    • Federal Agent
    • (uncredited)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Federal Agent
    • (uncredited)
    Lennie Burton
    • Lawyer
    • (uncredited)
    Steve Carruthers
    Steve Carruthers
    • Agent in Pursuit Car
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Carson
    Robert Carson
    • Bill Mason
    • (uncredited)
    Stephen Chase
    Stephen Chase
    • Secret Service Chief
    • (uncredited)
    Ken Christy
    • Deputy Marshal
    • (uncredited)
    Bert Conway
    • Mack Mantz
    • (uncredited)
    Clancy Cooper
    Clancy Cooper
    • Desk Sergeant
    • (uncredited)
    Oliver Cross
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Richard Fleischer
    • Writers
      • Earl Felton(story) (screenplay)
      • George Zuckerman(story) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      During the chase scene, the car driven by Agent Downey and Jack Sylvester passes the Alto-Nido Apartments (1851 N. Ivar Street, Hollywood, California). In Sunset Blvd. (1950), this is the apartment building where Joe Gillis lived before he moved to Norma Desmond's mansion.
    • Goofs
      When the fight starts between Stewart and Downey at the beach, Downey's hat comes off revealing a much younger stunt double with a thick head of very dark hair. The older John Hoyt, portraying Downey, appears after a cut again with short, graying hair.
    • Quotes

      John Downey: If you didn't have a gun on me, I'd beat your brains out. Cheap penny-ante drifter.

    • Connections
      Referenced in You Must Remember This: Barbara Payton (Dead Blondes Part 10) (2017)

    User reviews40

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    Ordinarily you'd expect Lloyd Bridges to be tracking down perennial villain John Hoyt. But here the usual roles are reversed-- Hoyt's the government agent and Bridges the small time hood. The movie itself is pretty typical of the docu-dramas of the period. It's the Treasury Department's turn to get the Hollywood treatment with the usual glowing introduction and stentorian narration. Though, like the stellar docu-drama T-Men (1947), the docu part soon gives way to big city noir. However, this film lacks importantly the former's grotesque air of nerve-wracking suspense.

    Director Fleischer and the writers manage a couple of nice twists, particularly at the beginning. Nonetheless, the script makes a basic error in switching the action from Stewart (Bridges) to Sylvester (James Todd) in the climactic part. (Was Bridges taken ill or otherwise made unavailable.) Unfortunately, Todd simply lacks the screen presence to intimidate an audience or make us loathe him, whereas Bridges can snarl and menace with the best of them. Thus the last third fails to generate the kind of mounting dread required of an A-grade suspenser. Then too, Hoyt's basically cold demeanor and cruel looks don't arouse much natural sympathy that would encourage you to identify with him. Thus, the suspense is further weakened by what should be an emotional interest in the treasury agent's fate. The casting here really is a departure from the expected and to the movie's detriment.

    Note how the culminating shootout takes place at an industrial site-- the overnight barn for LA's late, lamented trolley system, where we get a look at what could have eased LA's horrendous traffic problem. Actually, industrial sites crop up in the climax of a number of crime dramas of the period-- White Heat (1949), 7-11 Ocean Drive (1950), Union Station (1950), et al. I guess producers of the time figured running around big machines and shooting at each other would make for colorful audience excitement. Of course, the movie's also notable for the presence of notorious Hollywood bad-girl Barbara Payton, who was involved in several tawdry Hollywood scrapes and apparently ended her brief life as something of a cut-rate call girl ("Hollywood Babylon"). Whatever the direction of her private life, she's quite good here as Bridges' shapely blonde moll.

    Anyway, for its type, the movie's average at best.
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    • Mar 24, 2008

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    • Release date
      • October 1, 1949 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die Menschenfalle
    • Filming locations
      • St George Hotel - 115 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Bryan Foy Productions
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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