terrible... so disappointed.

Sorry, this movie sucks

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Richard Widmark stars with Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, and Earl Holliman in 1959's "The Trap," produced by Widmark's company.Widmark plays a mob attorney, Ralph Anderson who returns to his home town, despite being estranged from his sheriff father and deputy brother (Holliman). He needs his father to look the other way while a mobster, Vincent Massonetti (Cobb) takes a plane from there to Mexico. He explains that if his father doesn't do it, lots of blood will be shed.Unfortunately, Massonetti is spotted and all hell breaks loose. Anderson decides to drive Massonetti to the authorities - and there's one road out of the desert town. Accompanying him are his brother and his brother's wife (Louise), a former girlfriend of Anderson. Lots of complications as they attempt to get past the people who want to free Massonetti.Tense thriller with good performances all around. Louise was probably 20 at the time and very beautiful. I had the extreme displeasure of interviewing her some years ago, so I hesitated to watch this. Small but effective film that has the feel of a western, though it isn't one.

I stumbled upon this movie at my local library, and I decided to take a chance on it with no previous knowledge about it. On the whole, I found the movie to be fairly satisfying. At just eighty four minutes in length, the whole package runs smoothly and with no dead spots, and there is some genuine excitement and tension here and there. The cast also does a pretty good job in their roles. Most interesting, even though the movie's ending is to a degree predictable (this was made during the Production Code era, after all), I was surprised that to a larger degree the movie ended on quite a sad note; you could sense that the Widmark character had some deep guilt in his bringing trouble to his former home town.The movie is good, but could have been better. There are some unanswered questions and things that don't make some sense. For example: Wouldn't the Widmark character know what the area around the town he grew up in would be like? After killing the first deputy, why didn't the bad guys then kill Widmark and the others when they stumbled upon the deputy's body? And how did the bad guys know to grab and hold hostage the Tina Louise character? These and other nagging questions do hurt the movie to a degree. It's probably best to hold off watching the movie until you are in a forgiving mood.

If I could describe the trap as a regular 50s film I would say it is a very good film of its kind it may not have been the Rebel without a cause or The African Queen but my personal believe is that it sais something for B movies, my other thought is that you don't have to have Burt Lancaster or Rock Hudson or even a big budget for it to be a great film. Take this for example this was Tina Louise's second or third film but she did an outstanding job. Also the actors did outstanding job Richard Widmark, Earl Holliman, Lee J. Cobb, Carl Benton Ried and Lorne Greene did a super job. The camera was great, the producing and directing was great and the film itself was excellent I am looking forword to seeing it again.

This is well acted and directed. The mood is set right from the beginning, and Tula is no town for the faint of heart. Widmark and Cobb are terrific, and the supporting cast matches them every step of the way. Toward the end, some plot holes become apparent under close examination, but the ride is worth taking.