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The Trap (1919)

The Trap poster
Directed by
Frank Reicher
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 06m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is caught between duty and desire in a tense household. The story follows her choices and the consequences that trap her.

old-fashionedstagedseriousslowdialogue-drivenmelodramaticarchaicperformativelost

What happens

The Trap is a lost 1919 American silent drama film directed by Frank Reicher and starring Olive Tell. It was released in the United Kingdom under the title A Woman's Law. The film is based upon the 1915 play of the same name by Jules Eckert Goodman and Richard Harding Davis. The Library of Congress includes the film among the National Film Preservation Board's list of "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films" produced between 1912 and 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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