Crosstrap
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Crosstrap is a 19621 British B-movie crime film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, starring Laurence Payne, Jill Adams and Gary Cockrell. The screenplay was by Philip Wrestler, adapted from the 1956 novel The Last Seven Hours by John Newton Chance.
Crosstrap is a 1962 British B-movie crime film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, starring Laurence Payne, Jill Adams and Gary Cockrell. The screenplay was by Philip Wrestler, adapted from the 1956 novel The Last Seven Hours by John Newton Chance.
Cast
Laurence Payne as Duke Jill Adams as Sally Gary Cockrell as Geoff Zena Marshall as Rina Bill Nagy as Gaunt Robert Cawdron as Joe Larry Taylor as Peron Max Faulkner as Ricky Derek Sydney as Juan Michael Turner as Hoagy
Reception
Monthly Film Bulletin said "Overacted, ludicrous and amateurish, this so-called thriller finally explodes in a merry crescendo of guns, fists and bloodletting. The build-up, on the other hand, is laboured in the extreme." Kine Weekly said "Brawny, but brainless, British romantic crime melodrama. .. The picture, cheap crime fiction, takes a long while to unravel its plot and then goes to the other extreme and polishes off the bad lads with ludicrous haste. Laurence Payne fancies himself much too much as Duke, and Jill Adams and Gage Cockrell are no great shakes as Sally and Geoffrey. The rest also lack finesse. The country exteriors are, however, impressive, and cameraman Eric Cross definitely deserves a hand." According to the British Film Institute (BFI), The Daily Cinema wrote: "incredible but lively tale of gang-warfare, packed with hearty action and intrigue, plus a spot of sex for flavour" offering "robust ... programme support", with a "climactic blood-bath where corpses bite the dust as freely as Indians in a John Ford western".
Post-release
Crosstrap was originally released to cinemas as a supporting film in January 1962 by Unifilms Ltd. Unusually for a supporting feature, it was later picked up by Monarch Films for another cinema outing as a double-bill feature in 1967. There was no record of the film after this point. There was no indication that it was ever shown on television in the UK, and attempts to trace a print of the film proved fruitless for decades.
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