I'm trying to remember a movie I saw when I was a child, and this seems to fit the bill. Is there a bear trap scene (or an animal caught in a trap)in this movie somewhere?
Also, is this movie creepy at all? I remember being really scared.
Thanks so much for your help!
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Oliver Reed who played the role of Jean Lebete, was a trapper for furs, and in the climax of the film , he was escaping from wolves and had his foot caught in a steel trap. After dragging himself close to the cabin and not being able to move any more because of the circle of wolves around him, his deaf mute wife was able to rush outside and help him by killing some of these wolves with the shotgun., She then had to take an axe and Cut off his foot.
It was a very emotional and scarey scene.
Not having seen the film for more than ten years, I can't remember what brought Rita Tushingham outside if she was deaf.. or was she only a mute .?
Having been lucky enough to find this movie in a box of thrown away tapes (actually among about 30 thrown out at a dump sight I work at, and they are in excellent condition!!!) I have just watched it (twice) over the weekend. I loved it and remembered it from probably 35 years ago, and always wanted to see it again. I was so glad to be able to watch it again and will definitely keep the movie.
There was a black bear in the movie but was at the beginning of the trek to the cabin during a portage. Eve was scared by the bear and fell over a cliff. She was tied to Jean (I expect so she could not escape) and he was able to pull he back up onto the ledge. It was in a bear trap that Jean caught his foot ... he was looking up a tree at the bait for the bear when he heard a cougar behind him, he caulked his rifle (single shot) and turned around to shoot the cougar and stepped into the trap. It took 5 or 6 shots before he was able to bring down the cat that kept trying to attack him.
I would expect that a child might be scared by this scene in the movie especially when the wolves (maybe wild dogs) were attacking Jean. In this day and age I would expect that not many people would be scared by it. I hope that you are able to view this movie again ... often when we rewatch something from many years ago it falls short of what we remember but for me this one did not.
Thanks for your replies....I'll have to check it out. And you're right, quite often something that terrified me as a child turns out to be nothing, but I wouldn't be the maladjusted adult I am now without them!!! :-)
Everyone has one special thing.
Would you please describe the movie tape you have of 'The Trap', so that we might be able to track it down and possibly obtain copies? Particularly the tape manufacturer or movie studio that produced it.
I wish all of you movie buffs would request the good old special films we all love from the rental sites and the cable channels, so that they would know there is interest in them and perhaps make them available. I do it all I can but it takes numbers to even have a chance.
Sorry, this tape was one that someone had recorded, I expect off of the television. It is one though that if by chance it would ever come out on DVD I am sure that I will buy it. The only thing watching the tape told me that was not displayed on the sight is that it was produced by "The Rank Organisation Production Company."
sharethere was one creepy bit in the movie that scared me as a child and thats when she travels to there indian neighbours village for help to find them all frozen solid, just the borbidness of that ordeal was pretty shocking for that type of film.
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Re Farmersdaughter's 2005 comment about La Bete's gun, 'single shot', which he cocked (caulked???!!):
It is a mere 46 years since I watched this film but at that time I recall the rifle,used by the La Bete character, was a Spencer carbine from the American civil war period. (How the youthful,genius designer sold his design to Abraham Lincoln comes as basic firearms history.) Looking vaugely similar to a Sharps single shot carbine, with a separately cocked side hammer, the Spencer has a trigger guard underlever which feeds seven, 50 plus caliber (it changed slightly during its history), rimfire cartridges, from a tubular macazine in the butt. Remember the scene where he shoots out the lights in the store.
I saw the movie in the 70s and I believe that his rifle was a Peabody 45 caliber single-shot carbine. It came out in 1862, too late to be adopted by the Union in the Civil War, but was purchased by several foreign militaries afterwards. A Swiss army officer named Frederich Martini redesigned the action, getting rid of the hammer, and the result was the famous Martini-Henry, used by the British army for 20 years: http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/jpg/51d25e4cd98dcd1f284e8581c10051c0fc83e7b_r.jpg
shareOn my Rita Tushingham website, I have a publicity photograph from the film, which shows the rifle in some detail. I don't know anything about rifles, but perhaps the photo will help you to identify the type of rifle used in the movie.
http://ritatushingham.com/images/Rita-Tushingham-The-Trap-Gun-854x1124 .jpeg
Yes thats the big thing in this movie. The Hunter gets hunted cause he´s traped in his own trap;) Im sure you saw this movie
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