DVD & Blu-ray: TRAPPED (1949) Starring Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton

Product Description: Before making Hollywood epics such as Tora! Tora! Tora! And 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, director Richard Fleischer started his career with a series of low-budget B-features, often taking ripped-from-the-headlines tales of crime stories and spinning them into noir gold... of which an exquisite example is 1949's endlessly entertaining Trapped. A young Lloyd Bridges stars as hardboiled hood Tris Stewart, a convicted counterfeiter doing time in the Atlanta pen. When a fresh batch of fake bills starts circulating, treasury agents bail Stewart out to help lead them to the maker of the fake plates. But Tris double-crosses the Feds, hooking up with his gun-moll sweetie (22-year-old Barbara Payton in her breakout role). They plan to heist the plates and hightail it across the border. With the Feds closing in and the double-crosses piling up, Stewart finds himself between a rock and a hard place... and this time, he may be trapped for good! Although long sought by the Film Noir Foundation, Trapped was believed to have suffered the unfortunate fate of many B-films of the era-oblivion. But when a private collector deposited a 35mm acetate print at the Harvard Film Archive, the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive (with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust [The HFPA Trust]) sprang into action, restoring the film. The result, presented in a Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition by Flicker Alley, honors the pitch-perfect performances, assured direction, and gorgeous cinematography of this edge-of-your-seat, noir classic.

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Director: Richard Fleischer

Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt

Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Runtime: 78 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Flicker Alley

Home Video Release Date: December 31, 2019

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Blu-ray + DVD

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: None
Blu-ray: None

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono

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DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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"Freeing Trapped" — a mini-documentary on the film's creation and history, featuring interviews with Eddie Muller, Donna Lethal, and others.
"A Sedulous Cinderella: Richard Fleischer Remembered" — a remembrance of the man, the director, and the father, by his son, Mark Fleischer.
Audio Commentary Track — Featuring author Alan K. Rode and film historian Julie Kirgo.
24-Page Souvenir Booklet — Featuring rare photographs, poster art, and commentary by "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller.