The Trap
- 1966
- 1h 46m
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7.1/10
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A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
Joseph Golland
- Baptiste
- (as Jo Golland)
Reg McReynolds
- Captain
- (as Reginald McReynolds)
N. John Smith
- Boat Extra #1
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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great old school cinema
--- mild spoilers ---
this British adventure film tells a heart-wrenching love story by combining a classic erotic fantasy with a realistic depiction of the hard life in the 19th century Canadian wilderness. The show-piece of the film is the wolf attack. It is brilliantly filmed, with the camera moving on and on through the dark snow-covered wood, while the starving beasts relentlessly try to snap at the wounded trapper. Actually, these are no wolfs but German shepherds, but the whole thing was so damn frightening that I completely forgot that this film is forty years old. Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham are two great actors and make a wonderful couple in this film. I loved the last line delivered by Reed to Tushingham.
Only one thing I have to criticize: the two roguish native Americans are played by western actors with wigs. Looks very cheap by modern standards.
"The Trap" seems to be a lost classic. I had never heard or read of it until it aired on German television last week under the title "Wie ein Schrei I'm Wind". Then I found out that both of my parents had seen it decades ago and were so impressed by it that they never forgot it.
this British adventure film tells a heart-wrenching love story by combining a classic erotic fantasy with a realistic depiction of the hard life in the 19th century Canadian wilderness. The show-piece of the film is the wolf attack. It is brilliantly filmed, with the camera moving on and on through the dark snow-covered wood, while the starving beasts relentlessly try to snap at the wounded trapper. Actually, these are no wolfs but German shepherds, but the whole thing was so damn frightening that I completely forgot that this film is forty years old. Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham are two great actors and make a wonderful couple in this film. I loved the last line delivered by Reed to Tushingham.
Only one thing I have to criticize: the two roguish native Americans are played by western actors with wigs. Looks very cheap by modern standards.
"The Trap" seems to be a lost classic. I had never heard or read of it until it aired on German television last week under the title "Wie ein Schrei I'm Wind". Then I found out that both of my parents had seen it decades ago and were so impressed by it that they never forgot it.
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- kleiner_fuchs
- Sep 7, 2004
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Traper
- Filming locations
- Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada(cabin by the lake)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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