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Trapped

194979 minUnited States
Film noirCrime
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Original language
English
This copy runs
78:05
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English

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Synopsis

Federal investigators arrange the release of a convicted counterfeiter to trace a new supply of forged banknotes. He intends to turn the opportunity into his own escape, while an undercover agent works closer to him than he realizes. The chase for the printing plates becomes a contest of surveillance, bluff and divided loyalties.

Cast

DirectorsRichard Fleischer

Historical context

An opening account of Treasury work places the film in the postwar cycle of crime dramas that borrowed the appearance of official documentaries. Richard Fleischer then shifts from institutional procedure to a volatile undercover operation, keeping the pursuit of counterfeit money tied to the behaviour of individual criminals.

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