The Steel Trap
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.
Plot
With a million dollars cash in the vault, Jim Osborne, a long term bank employee who has advanced to assistant bank manager in Los Angeles, is tempted to steal from his own bank and flee the country. Doing research at the library, he learns that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the United States. If he steals the money at close of business on a Friday, he will have time to travel to Brazil before the theft is discovered on Monday's opening. But the season when the bank opens on Saturdays is about to begin, so he must take action the same week or else wait for months.
More details
| author | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q505780 |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q505780 |
| editor | Otto Ludwig |
| genre | crime thriller |
| keywords | advanced bank employee bank manager bank vault extradition gold reserve act illegally exporting gold million in cash money laundering control act open rio de janeiro standby unreported large cash transactions wrongdoing |
| musicBy | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| producer | Bert E. Friedlob |
| productionCompany | Thor Productions |
| theme | film noir |