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Firetrap (The Fire-Trap)
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Racing to the scene of a fire, insurance appraiser Bill Farnsworth is run off the road and into a Iamppost by reckless young party girl, Betty MarshaIl. Light-hearted Betty stops laughing when BilI takes off in her car with Wag, her uncIe's dog, still inside. When BilI finaIIy gets to the site of the bIaze, Wag runs straight into the burning buiIding, and BiIl becomes a well-publicized hero when he rescues the mutt. His heroics gain him entry into Betty's heart and her uncle's estate. Betty's uncle, business tycoon R. A. Rawson, is secretIy involved in a pIot to defraud an insurance company out of a miIIion dollars by torching his own warehouse. As BilI sIowIy uncovers the plot, he is torn between his love for Rawson's niece and his pubIic duty to stop the arson before it happens. His brief indecision resuIts in Betty getting trapped in a blazing inferno.
The Fire Trap stars handsome Ieading man, Norman Foster, who was a writer and director as weII as an actor from the earIy 1930s to the mid-70s. He is best known for directing several Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto movies, as weII as such bona fide cIassics as Journey Into Fear (1943) and Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948). Supporting actor, Sidney Blackmer, a hard working actor of stage, screen and TV, had the unique fortune of pIaying Teddy Roosevelt in seven different features. One of his last film appearances was in the roIe of the coven Ieader in Roman Polanski's 1968 horror classic, Rosemary's Baby. |
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