Flicker Alley: First Look at New Restoration of Trapped and Blu-ray
HomeFlicker Alley: First Look at New Restoration of Trapped and Blu-ray
Posted October 22, 2019 04:22 PM by Webmaster
Flicker Alley will release on Blu-ray Richard Fleischer's film noir Trapped (1949), starring Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, and Russ Conway. The release will be available for purchase on December 17.
Studio description: Before making Hollywood epics such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, director Richard Fleischer started his career with a series of low-budget B-features, often taking ripped-from-the-headlines crime stories and spinning them into noir gold... of which an exquisite example is 1949's endlessly entertaining Trapped.
A young Lloyd Bridges stars as hardboiled hood Tris Stewart, a convicted counterfeiter doing time in the Atlanta pen. When a fresh batch of fake bills starts circulating, Treasury agents bail Stewart out to help lead them to the maker of the fake plates. But Tris double-crosses the Feds, hooking up with his gun-moll sweetie (22-year-old Barbara Payton in her breakout role). They plan to heist the plates and hightail it across the border. With the Feds closing in and the double-crosses piling up, Stewart finds himself between a rock and a hard place… and this time, he may be trapped for good!
Although long sought by the Film Noir Foundation, Trapped was believed to have suffered the unfortunate fate of many B-films of the era—oblivion. But when a private collector deposited a 35mm acetate print at the Harvard Film Archive, the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive (with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust [The HFPA Trust]) sprang into action, restoring the film. The result, presented in a Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition by Flicker Alley, honors the pitch-perfect performances, assured direction, and gorgeous cinematography of this edge-of-your-seat, noir classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Studio description: Before making Hollywood epics such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, director Richard Fleischer started his career with a series of low-budget B-features, often taking ripped-from-the-headlines crime stories and spinning them into noir gold... of which an exquisite example is 1949's endlessly entertaining Trapped.
A young Lloyd Bridges stars as hardboiled hood Tris Stewart, a convicted counterfeiter doing time in the Atlanta pen. When a fresh batch of fake bills starts circulating, Treasury agents bail Stewart out to help lead them to the maker of the fake plates. But Tris double-crosses the Feds, hooking up with his gun-moll sweetie (22-year-old Barbara Payton in her breakout role). They plan to heist the plates and hightail it across the border. With the Feds closing in and the double-crosses piling up, Stewart finds himself between a rock and a hard place… and this time, he may be trapped for good!
Although long sought by the Film Noir Foundation, Trapped was believed to have suffered the unfortunate fate of many B-films of the era—oblivion. But when a private collector deposited a 35mm acetate print at the Harvard Film Archive, the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive (with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust [The HFPA Trust]) sprang into action, restoring the film. The result, presented in a Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition by Flicker Alley, honors the pitch-perfect performances, assured direction, and gorgeous cinematography of this edge-of-your-seat, noir classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- "Freeing Trapped" — a mini-documentary on the film's creation and history, featuring interviews with Eddie Muller, Donna Lethal, and others.
- "A Sedulous Cinderella: Richard Fleischer Remembered" — a remembrance of the man, the director, and the father, by his son, Mark Fleischer.
- Audio Commentary Track — Featuring author Alan K. Rode and film historian Julie Kirgo.
- 24-Page Souvenir Booklet — Featuring rare photographs, poster art, and commentary by "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller.
- REGION-FREE
