I would never have bet a dime on the fact that Norm Panama would have written and directed a crime drama, the same with Dick Quine giving us PUSHOVER, or the French director Cedric Klapish making NI POUR NI CONTRE BIEN AU CONTRAIRE. All of them also comedy specialist, ad pretty good ones. So back to this one, a kind of hybrid prodict, hesitating between western - settings and villains gangsters shown as like Indians- and crime drama, with a bit touch of 3.10 TO YUMA, pulled by convincing performances such as the likes of Richard Widmark and Lee J Cobb. Wirdmark could have made Cobb's character too, but maybe not Cobb, Widmark's role, though. Yes, it's a good film, but a bit predictable, unfortunately.
Review of The Trap
