The Steel Trap (1952)
For the Love of a Woman, He Stole $1,000,000!
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
- Date of release
- 1952-11-12
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (24)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Director
- Andrew L. Stone
Casting
- Joseph Cotten — Jim Osborne
- Teresa Wright — Laurie Osborne
- Jonathan Hale — Tom Bowers
- Walter Sande — Customs Inspector
- Eddie Marr — Ken Woodley
- Carleton Young — Briggs, airline clerk
- Katherine Warren — Mrs. Kellogg
- Tom Powers — Valcourt, Travel Agent
- Stephanie King — Susan Osborne
- Aline Towne — Gail Woodley
- Hugh Sanders — Mr. Greer, Passport clerk
- Marjorie Stapp — Travel Agent
Interesting facts
The Steel Trap is a 1952 American film noir written and directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, and Jonathan Hale.
Background
This was the second time that Cotten and Wright starred in a film together, following Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), in which she played his niece. Cotten was cast after visiting an osteopath and running into producer Bert Frielob, who sent him the script. Cotten agreed to make it.
The film was also known as Panic Stricken.
It was shot in two weeks, in the studio and in New Orleans, in April 1952.
Cotten also starred in A Blueprint for Murder (1953), with Jean Peters and Gary Merrill, a thriller noir also directed by Andrew L. Stone.
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