Slideshow
TRAPPED
Thursday, May 14
2:25
U.S., 1949
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Starring Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd
Approx. 78 min. 35mm.
En route to a thrilling night with bombshell Barbara Payton, convicted counterfeiter Lloyd Bridges is congratulating himself from escaping the lousy Feds—only trouble is, he’s really leading them to the gang flooding the L.A. coast with fake $20s.
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s
Reviews
“The ensuing series of table-turnings and reversals of fortune is agreeably unpredictable, with a full measure of prevailing visual motifs: plots hatched in dimly lit apartments, guys in trilbies ascending ominous stairways, and violence in picturesque settings.”
– Time Out