The Trap *** (1966, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks) – Classic Movie Review 9015

Director Sidney Hayers’s exceptionally good-looking 1966 Anglo-Canadian romantic adventure The Trap [L’Aventure Sauvage] stars Oliver Reed as tough French-Canadian fur trapper Jean La Bête, who buys mute orphan Eve (Rita Tushingham) to be his wife in the harsh wilderness of Canada.

After a miserable start, in which he takes the unwilling woman to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods, love eventually blooms for the apparently mismatched pair.

Director Sidney Hayers’s oddly appealing 1966 British Canadian film drama is given credibility by the actors and the spectacular wilderness snowy scenery, shot in Eastmancolor by Robert Krasker. It is filmed in the mountains and forests of British Columbia, Canada, though also in the studio at Hollyburn Film Studios, West Vancouver, and at Pinewood Studios, London.

Also in the cast are Rex Sevenoaks, Barbara Chilcott, Joseph Golland, Linda Goranson, Blain Fairman, Jon Granik, Marv Campone, Reg McReynolds and Walter Marsh.

The Trap [L’Aventure Sauvage] is directed by Sidney Hayers, runs 106 minutes, is made by Parallel, The Rank Organisation and George H Brown Productions, is released by Rank Film Distributors (1966) (UK) and Continental Distributing (1967) (US), is written by David D Osborn (story and screenplay), is shot in Eastmancolor and Panavision by Robert Krasker, is produced by George H Brown, is scored by Ron Goodwin and is designed by Harry White.

All characters and events in the film are fictitious.

Reed, playing a French-Canadian, pronounces Québec in the English way, pronouncing the ‘U’ (Kwebek), but he should say it without the ‘U’ (Kébek), silent in French.

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