Word: trappings
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...Rabbit Trap (Canon; United Artists). Once upon a time there was a company man (Ernest Borgnine). He worked as a draftsman for a construction outfit, and the fellows all called him "Steady Eddie" because he was never late, never sick, never idle, never got a raise. One year the boss (David Brian) got bighearted and let him take a two-week vacation with pay. So Eddie piled the wife and kid in his '53 Chevy and headed for a place called Deep Springs, where there were some nice cabins, not too expensive. But after a couple of days...
Back home, the kid suddenly remembered the box trap he and his dad had set in the woods at Deep Springs. What if a rabbit got caught in it? Nobody would let him out and he would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip...
...Rabbit Trap was apparently intended as a sleeper, but seems likely to wind up as what the exhibitors call a caboose-the back end of a double bill. In a way, it's a pity. As a social prescription, the story proposes a too simple cure for conformism, but it provides, as a sort of fable for the times, a useful moral: not all rabbits have long ears...
...worker whom circumstance elects as first president of his local. An idealist to begin with, he sells out for a mess of spoilage (a union vice-presidency) by making a deal with a union thug named Tony Russo. Before long, Kilcoyne lands in the deadly end-justifies-the-means trap, winds up condoning mutilation and murder, puts union funds into such investments as race tracks and silk ties. By the time a Senate committee gets at him, he is powerful, self-assured, and cockily forgetful of his past actions...
...Plume de Ma Tante. A crew of madcap Frenchmen have built a better laugh-trap and theatergoers are beating a path to its box-office door...