The Trap
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sidney Hayers
Rita Tushingham
Oliver Reed
Rex Sevenoaks
Barbara Chilcott
Linda Goranson
Film Details
Technical Specs

Synopsis
To a pioneer settlement, in 19th-century British Columbia, Jean La Bête, after 3 years of trapping, returns with a rich haul of fur. Eager to find a wife, he is too late for the once-a-year auction of castoff women offered to settlers for cash. In exchange for money owed him by the settlement trader, however, La Bête takes the trader's mute, orphaned housekeeper, Eve, for his wife; and they proceed by canoe northward to his cabin. Eve serves him well, tends to him after his leg has been crushed in one of his traps, but cannot reconcile herself to life with La Bête or the primitive backwoods. After Eve has been forced to amputate La Bête's gangrenous leg, he awakes one morning, discovers her gone, and suddenly, he realizes his emotional dependence on the mute woman. Returning to the settlement after being rescued from rapids by Indians, Eve agrees to marry the trader's clerk. But on the wedding day she is not to be found: she has gone back to La Bête.

Director
Sidney Hayers
Cast

Rita Tushingham

Oliver Reed
Rex Sevenoaks
Barbara Chilcott
Linda Goranson
Blain Fairman
Walter Marsh
Jo Golland
Jon Granik
Merv Campone
Reginald Mcreynolds
Crew
O. H. Borradaile
George H. Brown
Ken Cameron
Stanley Clish
Tristam Cones
Tristam Cones
Jan Darnley-smith
Margaret Furse
Ron Goodwin
Basil Keys
Robert Krasker
Barrie Mclean
George New
David Osborn
Bill Roozeboom
L. C. Rudkin
Howard Tremaine
David Tringham
Harry White
Anthony Wolf

Film Details
Technical Specs

Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in British Columbia. Released in Great Britain in September 1966. French Canadian title: L'aventure sauvage.

Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1966
Shown at 1966 Venice Film Festival.
Released in United States 1966
Released in United States 1966 (Shown at 1966 Venice Film Festival.)