Trapped

Trapped

27/9/1949 1h 18m 5.9/10

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

Top Billed Cast

Lloyd Bridges

Lloyd Bridges

Tris Stewart

John Hoyt

John Hoyt

Agent John Downey

Russ Conway

Russ Conway

Chief Agent Gunby

Robert Karnes

Robert Karnes

Agent Fred Foreman

James Todd

James Todd

Jack Sylvester

Barbara Payton

Barbara Payton

Meg Dixon

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/9/2022

6/10

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.

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