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The Trap' Clicks asMelodramaIV BRIEF — Crime ivn-Vdicnte »tuh$ lit toe in effort« to corrupt the Imc out W e*t.'The Trap, at the Flamin. go, Riviera and Paramount Theaters, is one of those desert town action melodramaswhich have been _, # missed sinceMOVIC Humphrey Bogart used to doReview ^em RO menacingly some yearsago.This one tells the basic storvwof a crime syndicates efforts to isolate a small southwestern town's airport so that a member wanted for murder can be flown out of the country'.Withjn the fabric of this action is a second story line corr-cerning Richard Widmarks efforts, as the syndicates lawyer, to get his father, who is sheriff of the town to look theother way while the escape is made.Complicating the situationare thesa farts: Father and son have not been on speaking terms for years and Wld-mark s brother. Far! Holliman. Is married to Widmark s former sweetheart. Tina Louise, who still carries a torch for her first love.There's a lot of story and alot of unrelenting violence crammed into the footageand naturally some of it gets in the way of smooth story' telling. But on the level ofknock-em-down-drag-'em-o u tmelodrama and blood-letting (its in color!) The Trap should more than satisfy.Chief trouble is that too many loose ends are tied up too patly to bring about the ending.—GEORGE BOURKE
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Miami Herald
Miami, Florida, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1959
Page 33
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