how weary and stale and flat and and unprofitable seem to me all the us of trapped . that hamlet and part time movie critic for the elsinore herald gazette and write his review after watch this reverential dud . trap instruct u on the excellence of the u. s. treasury department secret service and a it agent track down the near perfect plate for bogus $ 20 bill and now start to show up in circulation . the man who make the plate and tris stewart ( lloyd bridge ) be in prison and so he can not be the mastermind . someone and mr. big and have those plate and be start to use them . the treasury department work a deal with stewart . they will spring him from prison and make it look like a jailbreak . in return and he will track down his former partner and find out who responsible for the new stuff . stewart and however and have a different idea . he will go along with the phony jail break and but he plan to hook up with his old girl friend and meg dixon ( barbara payton ) and cut a deal of his own with mr. big and then vamoose to mexico with meg and as much money and good or bad and that he can fool everyone out of . only two thing stand in his way . first be the shrewd and brave and dedicate men ( there be no woman in the movie except payton ) of the united state treasury . second be the shrewd and brave and dedicated secret service agent john downey ( john hoyt ) . trap be one of those documentary seeming paean to the government that hollywood produce in the late forty . for the fbi and it be the house on 92nd street and the street with no name . with trapped and be give a seven minute civics lesson on the many praise worthy activity of the u. s. treasury and with an emphasis on the reprehensible nature of counterfeiting and at the end of this stentorian and no nonsense and deeply respectful narration honor our government at work and i nearly write a check to add to my income tax payment . the real problem with trapped and however and be that it be dull and with journeyman direction and act . there be one or two solid scene and include a tough fist fight in a shadowy hotel room and a chase and shootout in the huge shed housing dozen of los angeles electrify streetcar . in between be just one dull scene after another a stewart track down mr. big and the secret service stay on stewart tail . the secret service may be always one step ahead of stewart and but for most of the movie and once we catch on to how good hollywood be go to make the secret service and not much suspense be leave . this be one of the first movie richard fleischer direct . he have a long and successful career that wasn not particularly distinguish . on the one hand he give u such interesting or pleasurable movie a the narrow margin and fantastic voyage and 10 rillington place and soylent green . but then we have thing such a doctor doolittle and mandingo and the jazz singer . poignantly and we can see barbara payton and reflect on the life and if theyre unlucky and of lush and blonde and shallow starlet . she manage a handful of movie work with the like of gregory peck and james cagney and gary cooper . within a couple of year she be enmesh in scandal . she do not seem to mind along a she be talk about . another year or two and her career be over and which seem to puzzle her . payton life be a sad and sordid melodrama and finishing at the age of 39 after alcoholism and public drunkenness and arrest for heroin and prostitution . she love the attention hollywood give starlet and but she have little talent other than her curve .