The Steel Trap

The Steel Trap

Infobox Film
name = The Steel Trap


image_size =
imdb_id = 0045190
producer = Bert E. Friedlob
director = Andrew L. Stone
writer = Andrew L. Stone (screenplay)
starring = Joseph Cotten
Teresa Wright
cinematography = Ernest Laszlo
editing = Otto Ludwig | music = Dimitri Tiomkin
distributor = Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
released = November 12, 1952 (USA)
runtime = 85 min.
language = English

"The Steel Trap" is a 1952 thriller film directed and written by Andrew L. Stone.

Plot

Jospeh Cotten plays a bank officer that decides to rob his own bank and head to Brazil before he can be found out. Leaving with his wife (Teresa Wright), he finds it difficult exiting the country.

Trivia

This was the second time that Cotten and Wright starred in a film together, following Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943). Neither were considered Hollywood "stars", but both were highly respected character actors. Alas, by 1952 Wright's career as the American girl-next-door was going into decline.

Cotten also starred in A Blueprint for Murder ( 1953), with Jean Peters and Gary Merrill, a thriller directed by Andrew L. Stone as well.

Cast

* Joseph Cotten as Jim Osborne
* Teresa Wright as Laurie Osborne
* Jonathan Hale as Tom Bowers
* Walter Sande as Customs Inspector
* Eddie Marr as Ken Woodley
* Carleton Young as Briggs, airline clerk

External links

*imdb title|id=0045190|title=The Steel Trap
* [http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2008/05/steel-trap-1952-and-blueprint-for.html Film Noir of the Week]


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