The Trap

A French-Canadian fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

Cast

Rita Tushingham

as Eve

Oliver Reed

as La Bete

Rex Sevenoaks

as The Trader

Barbara Chilcott

as Trader's Wife

Blain Fairman

as Clerk

Walter Marsh

as Preacher

Merv Campone

as Yellow Dog

Linda Goranson

as Trader's Daughter

Joseph Golland

Jon Granik

Reviews

CinemaSerf

"La Bête" (Oliver Reed) is a fur trapper, eking out a living in the wilderness of British Columbia. He travels to the trading post once a year to trade his pelts and hopefully buy himself a wife. Eligible women are something of a rare thing this far North so when he is offered the chance to swap his...

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