| The Steel Trap | |
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| Directed by | Andrew L. Stone |
| Produced by | Bert E. Friedlob |
| Written by | Andrew L. Stone (screenplay) |
| Starring | Joseph Cotten Teresa Wright |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Editing by | Otto Ludwig |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | November 12, 1952 (USA) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Language | English |
The Steel Trap is a 1952 thriller film directed and written by Andrew L. Stone.
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Joseph Cotten plays a bank officer who decides to rob his own bank and head to Brazil before he can be found out. Leaving with his wife (Teresa Wright), he finds it difficult exiting the country.
This was the second time that Cotten and Wright starred in a film together, following Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943). Neither were considered Hollywood "stars", but both were highly respected character actors. Alas, by 1952 Wright's career as the American girl-next-door was going into decline.
Cotten also starred in A Blueprint for Murder ( 1953), with Jean Peters and Gary Merrill, a thriller directed by Andrew L. Stone as well.