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TITLE Trap, The (1966)

ALT__TITLE 1. L'Aventure sauvage 2. The Mad Trapper

DISABILITY Deaf

COUNTRY UK/Canada

LENGTH 106

GENRE Adventure

DIRECTOR Sidney Hayers

CAST Rita Tushingham

Oliver Reed

Rex Sevenoaks

Linda Goranson

Barbara Chilcott

NOTES In the Canadian outback of the 1890s potential wives are up

for auction. Reed is a trapper who's missed the auction but

gets a woman with a speaking impairment for a thousand

dollars (she is not deaf). And they go off into the wilderness.

Reed bullies and blusters in his usual manner and kills every

animal in sight while Tushingham as the wife remains docile.

He calls her "rabbit". But after a number of adventures for him

and some soul searching for her the relationship softens.

She has won independence and confidence.

 


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