Feb 2nd
The Trap
(GB/Canada 1966)

A brutish fur trapper is sold a mute wife, and the two of them collectively have to depend upon each other's survival.
Unpleasant pastoral melodrama in starkly pictorial surroundings that only occasionally appear in the narrative. The title music had a better afterlife as the theme music to the London Marathon on TV years later.

Written by: David Osborn.
Producer: George H. Brown.
Director: Sidney Hayers.
Starring: Oliver Reed, Rita Tushingham, Barbara Chilcott, Rex Sevenoaks.
Photography: Robert Krasker.
Music: Ron Goodwin.

Precedeed by:
The Face
(GB 2016. Chromaquay. 3m.; Adequately well mounted tribute to Frankenstein and film noir.; w: Clair Sams; d: Broa Sams; s: Patrick Marlow, Nicola Goodchild; ph: Jamie Weston.)