Rent The Trap (1966)
3.7 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 41min
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- Synopsis:
Jean Le Bête (Oliver Reed) is an intimidating fur trapper who comes to a small mining town in British Columbia in search of a wife. Having travelled for 3 days from his remote trappers hut Jean has to settle for a mute girl, Eve (Rita Tushingham), who has not spoken since her own family suffered at the hands of Indians when she was a young girl. The initial hostility between Jean and Eve thaws and the slowly changing relationship between the trapper and his mute partner is both touching and fragile. The story centres around these two mismatched individuals, both handicapped in their own way as they struggle to make a life together in the Canadian wilderness. From initial brutality to tolerance to mutual interdependence and finally love! - Actors:
- Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Barbara Chilcott, Linda Goranson, Blain Fairman, Walter Marsh, Joseph Golland, Jon Granik, Merv Campone, Reg McReynolds, N. John Smith
- Directors:
- Sidney Hayers
- Producers:
- George H. Brown
- Writers:
- David D. Osborn
- Studio:
- Strawberrry Media
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Reviews (2) of The Trap
Period interest only - The Trap review by TE
Something of an oddity in the film career of Rita Tushingham. She rolls her eyes and gurns her way through her role as a young mute woman on the grim frontier in British Columbia in the early 19th century.
At least she didn't have to learn any lines.
Her co-lead is Oliver Reed, who hams it up in his usual irritating way, guffawing crazily and doing his best Desperate Dan impressions. His accent is meant to be that of a French trapper, but it changes from one scene to the next, with a heavy emphasis on cod-Irish.
The glorious Canadian scenery is the best reason for watching this strange Mills & Boon rom-com.
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Big Country - The Trap review by Steve
Offbeat variation on the Beauty and the Beast, relocated to British Columbia, Canada in the 1890s. Oliver Reed is a brutish trapper who drops by a trading post to buy an innocent, mute orphan (Rita Tushingham) against her will and take her back to the wilderness. And of course they fight and change each other and eventually fall in love.
Their rapprochement is secured by an extraordinarily visceral episode when they fight off a pack of wolves together. Reed plays a primitive man of appetites with a relishable excess of panache. And a French accent! Rita portrays the fears and frustrations of the damaged foundling as a wide eyed, melodramatic waif. It isn't realistic or subtle.
But it is passionate. These are Darwinian humans, fighting to survive in an incredibly hostile, remote environment. The perception of constant jeopardy is extremely well staged and photographed, at times slipping into a sensation of a primal altered reality. And their dependence on each other finds a way to an instinctive intimacy.
So she can't speak, and he doesn't want to hear anyway. It's a simple survival story which becomes breathtaking. The Canadian scenery is exhilarating. The impression of isolation and savage nature is prodigious. But way beyond the drama of the landscape, it's a compelling, unorthodox romance set in the context of extreme human experiences.
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