Gold trap

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Movie
German title Gold trap
Original title The Money Trap
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1965
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Burt Kennedy
script Walter Bernstein
production David Karr ,
Max E. Youngstein
music Hal Schaefer
camera Paul Vogel
cut John McSweeney Jr.
occupation
synchronization

Goldfalle (Original title: The Money Trap ) is an American crime film by MGM from 1965 with Glenn Ford , Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth . A novel by Lionel White served as a literary model .

action

Joe Baron is a policeman in homicide and lives with his wife Lisa - given its mediocre content - far beyond its means. When the company from which Lisa once inherited profitable stocks goes bankrupt, her financial situation becomes precarious. Joe is therefore involved in the attempted robbery on the safe of the well-known doctor Dr. Horace Van Tilden interested. When Joe and his colleague Pete Delanos arrived, he was visibly dissolved after he caught the burglar opening the safe and, as he said, shot at him in self-defense. It turns out that the seriously injured man is Phil Kenny, a small drug dealer. On the way to the hospital he is briefly conscious and reports to Joe that he worked for Van Tilden. As proof, he shows him a piece of paper with the combination of the safe. From Kenny's last words, Joe concludes that there was an enormous amount of cash in the safe. However, when the police arrived, the safe was empty and Van Tilden claimed he had never used it.

Then Joe sets out to find Kenny's wife, from whom he hopes to get more information. When he faces the waitress in a shabby pub, he recognizes his childhood sweetheart Rosalie in her. When he drives her home after work, they indulge in memories of their school days and then spend a night together. From her, Joe learns that Van Tilden does business with drug dealers and that her husband Phil was just his little sidekick.

In the following years, Joe and Pete wait to gain unlawful access to Van Tilden's house at a favorable moment. The doctor on astray, meanwhile, has Rosalie murdered as ice-cold - for fear that she might make a statement to the police. In order to divert any suspicion from himself, he takes a short vacation in Mexico . Greedy for the money, Joe and Pete now break into his house and find a large amount of heroin next to the money . At that moment they are surprised by Van Tilden and his accomplices and a violent exchange of fire ensues, in which Pete is wounded. Nevertheless, the two cops manage to escape with the prey. Joe realizes, however, that he can't take Pete to a doctor, otherwise the police would find out about their questionable machinations. He therefore decides to take care of Pete in his house and only to let his wife Lisa know.

However, Joe realizes that the bullet in Pete's wound needs to be professionally removed by a doctor. Out of necessity and reluctantly, he makes Dr. Van Tilden made a suggestion over the phone: To get the drug back, Van Tilden should treat Pete. The doctor agrees, but he's late and Pete succumbs to his injuries. Nevertheless, Joe wants to keep his promise and drives Van Tilden to the hiding place, where he has brought the heroin and the money to safety. He realizes too late that the doctor is not ready to share. Van Tilden pulls out his revolver , grabs all of the booty and drives away. When Joe can send the car two more shots, the vehicle skids and crashes into a lamppost. Van Tilden is able to get out of the car unharmed, but Joe has no more mercy for the man who has Rosalie and Pete on his conscience. He shoots Van Tilden and returns home exhausted, where he remorsefully tells Lisa what happened. Lisa realizes that both of them are asking too much from life. She picks up the phone and calls the police.

background

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford became a dream couple in American cinema during the 1940s. Goldfalle was their fifth and last film together. The other four films they appeared in front of the camera together were: The Lady in Question (1940), Gilda (1946), Love Nights in Seville (1948) and Affair in Trinidad (1952).

In Germany, Goldfalle first came to cinemas on September 7, 1965.

Reviews

The reviews for the film were consistently bad, but sometimes praised the portrayal of Rita Hayworth. According to Variety , the "clichéd, hackneyed, unbelievable script [...] could not have been saved by a far better direction or better acting". Newsweek wrote at the time: "Everyone in a gold trap is despicable except for Rita Hayworth and she of all people is being pushed off a building."

Time found that Goldfalle was "overloaded with social statements and sloppy construction" and was primarily "remarkable due to the appearance of the former glamor girl Rita Hayworth". "Bloated, outspoken, carefully stripped of its facade", the 47-year-old Rita Hayworth "never looked less like a beauty, but never looked more like an actress" than here.

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times concluded that the film was "nothing new" and that it was "much better" in its form. It is Rita Hayworth, "who stands out as a worn-out waitress". Hayworth and Ford, who had previously stood together in front of the camera several times, such as in Gilda , are "together so touching that you can see for a moment what Goldfalle could have been". “Dull colportage that uses implausible social problems as a pretext for depicting brutality, murder and adultery,” was the simple verdict of the lexicon of international film .

German version

The German dubbed version was created in Berlin in 1965 .

role actor Voice actor
Joe Baron Glenn Ford Rolf Schult
Rosalie Kenny Rita Hayworth Tilly Lauenstein
Dr. Horace Van Tilden Joseph Cotten Friedrich Schoenfelder
Pete Delanos Ricardo Montalbán Gert Günther Hoffmann

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "A cliche-plotted, tritely written script that is not to be believed could not be salvaged even by far better direction and performances." See The Money Trap . In: Variety , 1966.
  2. ^ "Everyone in The Money Trap is contemptible but Rita Hayworth, and she gets pushed off a building." See Newsweek cited. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 234.
  3. ^ “Overburdened with social significance and sloppy syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of a onetime glamor girl, Rita Hayworth. [...] Puffy, plain-spoken, her veneer meticulously scraped away, Rita at forty-seven has never looked less like a beauty, or more like an actress. " See Time quoting. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 234.
  4. ↑ “ The Money Trap has been jumping before - and far better. […] It is Rita Hayworth who is best of all playing a worn-out waitress. [...] Miss Hayworth and Ford who have starred in several films, most memorably Gilda , are so sadly touching that for a moment you can see what The Money Trap might have been, too. " Kevin Thomas quoted in Los Angeles Times . after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 234.
  5. ↑ Gold trap. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de
  7. ↑ Gold trap. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 28, 2019 .