THE TRAP (1966) widescreen - part 3/3

In this beauty-and-the-beast love story, Rita Tushingham plays a mute orphan girl who is sold to fur trapper Oliver Reed as his unwilling wife. He drags the terrified girl to his remote cabin in the woods.

The film is set in British Columbia, Canada, in 1849. Great wilderness scenery, and a terrific score by Ron Goodwin. Impressively, Rita has not one word of dialogue, playing the role entirely with her eyes.

This copy is a direct transfer from a film print which, strangely, has German titles but an English audio track. There are a few problems with the audio -- it occasionally loses sync or changes pitch, but those problems were intrinsic to the film print.

This anamorphic 16:9 letterboxed presentation shows the film in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

See my Rita Tushingham fansite at http://ritatushingham.info

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• yt:quality=high
• The Trap
• Rita Tushingham
• Oliver Reed
• Ron Goodwin
• Sidney Hayers
• British Columbia
• wilderness
• adventure

[TheAdelaidehall]

Great to see this in widescreen again! Thank you. What a shame Oliver Reed & Rita Tushingham didn't make Jane Eyre! What perfect casting that would have been.

[rjd0309]

@TheAdelaidehall An excellent idea. Now that you point it out, Tushingham and Reed would be perfect for Jane Eyre.

[helmuthoorn]

Thank you so much for uploading this.

Nobody could have done a better job in portraying this marvelous character than the late Oliver Reed.

Who wrote the book?

[rjd0309]

@helmuthoorn David Osborn wrote the original script. John Burke wrote the novelization of the screenplay. You can still find copies of his novel if you Google "John Burke" and "The Trap".

[2000joec]

good movie. thanks for the upload.

[Hendrikdevuile]

Fine movie with great human interest and excellent shots of wildlife, though the wolves did look remarkably like alsatian dogs. I noticed Chief Dan George in the town, who had a big part in "The Outlaw Josie Wales". The girl's guardian points out that the massacre of her family occurred south of the border, Canadian "indians" being mainly refugees from the US genocide or, possibly apart from those two dead kidnappers, pacific natives.

[sagittaep]

thank you, it's great to see this again after so many years (decades)... :-)

[Greya77]

Thank you

[TresBouch]

What can I say? This movie is just absolutely incredible. From Childhood Youth to rediscovering it now. The sheer blunt and honest truth of what cinema should be. No padding, no flash, no 'garbage' of what cinematography has become just real and acurate times of how lif was.And seriously now,for months I cannot stop this song from departing my mind. "'When I'm a man I'll take me a wife, and live in a house on a hill, a hill... The Best, Beast or La Bete! Its all the same in this case...

[Sameer691000]

It is sad to know that Oliver Reed is no more after reading some comments from our YT friends. This movie I watched in the cinema soon after it was released and liked it very much. Its story is very different from what todays movies are made upon. I like the character of Rita Tushingham very much as she had played her role better than other movies. Thanks for this beautiful and unforgetable movie.

[namqua123]

thanks for the movie i saw it years ago in the movie hall in scotland... it was one of the best i have ever seen.. gives one a great feeling at the end.. thanks again!..

[eldritch1985]

@MrsJaneEyreRochester I first discovered this movie on Youtube. Where did you first find out about this film? I, also, love the way Le Bete's character shows gentleness around Eve. Jon and Eve where both alone in the world, and they find each other. I really love the way the movie ends. I love romance! If you know of any other 1960s Brit films, Rita Tushingham films, or Oliver Reed films that would be good to check out, please let me know.