{"id":31744,"date":"2023-02-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31744"},"modified":"2023-02-05T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T13:22:33","slug":"the-trap-1946-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31744","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Trap (1946) starring Sidney Toler &#038; Mantan Moreland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020523zview_thetrap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Trap <\/strong><\/em>(1946)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Howard Bretherton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Marl Derr Biggers <\/strong>based on the character created by<strong> Miriam Kissinger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Larry J. Blake, Kirk Alyn<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Howard Negley<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>GORGEOUS SHOWGIRLS DOOMED TO DEATH!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cole King (Negley) is vacationing with his troupe of showgirls at a beach house.\u00a0 When one of the girls is found strangled, it isn&#8217;t long before Charlie Chan (aided by his son, Jimmy (Yung) and valet, Birmingham (Moreland) are called in to determine the murderer or murderess!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Sidney Toler&#8217;s last outing as Charlie Chan.\u00a0 Toler had been suffering from cancer and passed away within 3 months of the film&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Trap<\/em> follows the same format as all Charlie Chan films. There is a murder with multiple suspects and Chan is brought in to investigate.\u00a0 He&#8217;s assisted by his son and valet (for comedy effect).\u00a0 Chan determines who the killer is (and it&#8217;s usually not one suspected by the audience).\u00a0 Everything wraps up in about an hour or a little more.\u00a0 Charlie Chan films are a great way to end an evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My main reason for checking out the Charlie Chan films is Mantan Moreland.\u00a0 He&#8217;s one of the most underrated comedians of his era.\u00a0 The more screen time Moreland gets, the better the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Trap <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020523zview_thetrap2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trap (1946) Director:\u00a0 Howard Bretherton Screenplay:\u00a0 Marl Derr Biggers based on the character created by Miriam Kissinger Stars: Sidney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31748,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31744\/revisions\/31748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}