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Title: THE MONEY TRAP YEAR: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 |
For this Post-Noir, which didn't seem aware that Film Noirs had ended, It takes former THE BIG HEAT actor Glenn Ford to make what could be an average, by-the-numbers programmer an intriguing glimpse into a planned heist of a crooked doctor's mansion wall-safe...
A man who, in Ford's opinion, murdered a thief that broke in... Part of the ingredients that makes THE MONEY TRAP a nice little page-turner with a touch of mystery, despite knowing whodunit from the get-go...
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Elke Sommer and Glenn Ford in THE MONEY TRAP
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Although it's never quite clear why the cops, including Ford's desperate partner Ricardo Montalban, would take such a risk, other than a payoff, each scene flows into the next in an eclectic hybrid of Noir and Soapy Melodrama...
The latter involving Ford's trophy wife, who is second billed over his once-famous GILDA co-starlet Rita Hayworth as a waitress sharing a past with the veteran cop, and she's a widow to the dead thief....
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Ricardo Montalban and Glenn Ford in The Money Trap |
Too bad sexy blonde Elke Sommer doesn't veer into edgy moll or nefarious dame territory, or something other than a reason to provoke the main character into crossing the line: she's basically a plot-point with a perfect body. Meanwhile, Hayworth and Ford share a few scenes that could have been played by anyone; yet it's nice seeing both of them together in this B&W time-filler that's worth an idyllic afternoon viewing...
And safe seat gentleman Joseph Cotten's henchman Tom Reese is the most intriguing throughout. With a face looking like it'd been through a blender with a crocodile, he alone provides the real threat since, after all, the criminals here are the law.
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The Foreign posters are the best posters this one of THE MONEY TRAP |
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Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in THE MONEY TRAP |
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Elke Sommer in THE MONEY TRAP
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Joseph Cotten in THE MONEY TRAP
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Tom Reese in THE MONEY TRAP
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Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in THE MONEY TRAP
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Elke Sommer and Glenn Ford make an unlikely pair in THE MONEY TRAP
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