{"id":38773,"date":"2025-04-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38773"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:39:58","slug":"the-steel-trap-1952-starring-joseph-cotten-and-teresa-wright-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38773","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Steel Trap&#8221; (1952) starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z042025zview_steeltrap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Steel Trap <\/strong><\/em>(1952)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Andrew L. Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Andrew L. Stone<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright<\/strong><strong>, Jonathan Hale, Walter Sande, Eddie Marr, Carleton Young, Katherine Warren, Tom Powers, William Hudson <\/strong>and<strong> Marjorie Bennett<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Baited&#8230;by a million dollars &#8211; and all they had to do was REACH!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">Jim Osborn (Cotton) has worked his way up to Assistant Manager of a large LA bank.\u00a0 Just for fun, Jim has thought of different ways to steal and getaway with one million dollars from the vault.\u00a0 His most recent plan has him tempted.\u00a0 He could steal the money on Friday after closing and take flights to get to Brazil before Monday morning.\u00a0 As long as Jim and his family made it to Brazil where they don&#8217;t have an extradition treaty with the US, he would be free (and rich)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim lies to his wife about why they are going to Brazil on Friday.\u00a0 He puts his plan in place.\u00a0 On Friday after the bank closes, he steals the money.\u00a0 Now if everything falls into place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like the plan to steal the money.\u00a0 My problem was that <strong>every single step of the way<\/strong> things go wrong.\u00a0 This took a lot of suspense out.\u00a0 Instead of thinking, &#8220;Whew! That was close,&#8221; I began thinking, &#8220;Ok, what is the problem now?&#8221;\u00a0 Then when (BIG SPOILER ALERT), Jim decides to get the money back into the vault before the bank opens, everything goes right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>The Steel Trap <\/strong><\/em>(1952) rates 2 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.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\/2025\/z042025zview_steeltrap2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steel Trap (1952) Director:\u00a0 Andrew L. Stone Screenplay: Andrew L. 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