Watched for my Sunday Noir the 1952 thriller THE STEEL TRAP. It reunites Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright (A Shadow of a Doubt) as husband and wife. Cotten plays a bank executive who decides to steal a million dollars from the bank and flee to Brazil. The whole plot revolves around that he has to get passports, plane reservations, hotel rooms, all so he and his wife can be in Brazil Monday morning when they find out the money is missing. Why he didn’t plan the trip first before stealing the money is irrelevant because there wouldn’t be much suspense. So if you can suspend disbelief for 80 minutes, it’s a pretty fun suspense thriller as Cotten and Wright lug around a 150 pounds of money in a suitcase in cabs, airports, and New Orleans. Cotten also is tricking his wife into thinking they are just going on a business trip for the bank. It reminded me a bit of a Noir version of The Out of Towners; It has a teleplay feel to it, sort of like a low-rent Alfred Hitchcock Presents. On Warner Archives. Afterwards, to keep the Joseph Cotten fest going, I watched an Alfred Hitchcock Presents, directed by Hitchcock, “Breakdown”. Cotten plays a man who is paralyzed in a car accident who everything thinks is dead. 22 minutes of greatness.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:18:16 +0000
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