Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. This strong, stark adaptation of John le Carre's novel has Richard Burton giving his best screen performance as a burnt-out British agent sent to set a diabolical trap for a tireless foe (Oskar Werner) in East Germany...
...matter of sharp blacks and whites, a picture etched in the vitriol of their trade. Johnson was a cranky old codger blind to criticism and deaf to dissent; he was a foolish tourist taken in by the grass skirts and leis of a Pacific tourist trap...
...Money Trap would be a pretty good suspense melodrama if it could only learn when to keep its trap shut. Until the dialogue gets in his way, Hero Glenn Ford is quite persuasive as a gruff $9,200-a-year detective, blessed with "a beautiful home, the wife I want, a swimming pool, three cars and two servants." The fringe benefits have been provided by his rich missus, miscast Elke Sommer, who was obviously born to play a bauble-headed blonde who marries a man to enjoy his money instead of bringing her own. Elke makes a weak role weaker...
Overburdened with social significance and sloppy syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of onetime glamour girl Rita Hayworth. Rita, frequently cast opposite Ford since they co-starred in Gilda in 1946, plays a frowzy, pathetic old flame who knows the rackets but preserves all her secrets in booze. Puffy, plainspoken, her veneer meticulously scraped away, Rita at 47 has never looked less like a beauty, or more like an actress...
...enlarged commitment to South Vietnam would prevent the United States from meeting the obligations of its other alliances. Should the Communists cause trouble elsewhere, he reasons, we would be caught in an inescapable bind. The North Vietnamese do not believe that we would allow ourselves to fall into this trap; they remain unintimidated by our threats of escalation...