The Trap (1922 film)

The Trap
Newspaper advertisement.
Directed by	Robert Thornby
Written by	Lon Chaney (story) Lucien Hubbard (story) George C. Hull (writer) Irving Thalberg (story)
Starring	Lon Chaney Alan Hale
Cinematography	Virgil Miller
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	May 9, 1922 (1922-05-09) (U.S.)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Trap

The Trap is a 1922 American silent film starring Lon Chaney, directed by Robert Thornby, and released by Universal Pictures. The movie was released in the United Kingdom under the title Heart of a Wolf.

The film stars Chaney as the leading character, Alan Hale as his rival, and Irene Rich as the female lead. Chaney had also appeared in an unrelated film of the same name in 1913.

Plot summary

The film features an angry miner who sets out for revenge on a man who stole his mine.

Cast

Lon Chaney as Gaspard the Good
Alan Hale as Benson
Dagmar Godowsky as Thalie
Stanley Goethals as The Boy
Irene Rich as The Teacher
Spottiswoode Aitken as The Factor
Herbert Standing as The Priest
Frank Campeau as The Police Sergeant

Production

It was filmed in Yosemite National Park in California.

Survival status

Several prints of the film exist and it is available on DVD.^[1]

References

↑ Progressive Silent Film List: The Trap at silentera.com

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Trap (1922 film).

The Trap at the Internet Movie Database
The Trap is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Irving Thalberg

Producer	Foolish Wives (1922) Merry-Go-Round (1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) His Hour (1924) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Greed (1924) The Unholy Three (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) The Tower of Lies (1925) The Big Parade (1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Torrent (1926) La Bohème (1926) Brown of Harvard (1926) The Road to Mandalay (1926) The Temptress (1926) Valencia (1926) Flesh and the Devil (1926) Twelve Miles Out (1927) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) London After Midnight (1927) The Crowd (1928) Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Show People (1928) West of Zanzibar (1928) The Broadway Melody (1929) The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) Voice of the City (1929) Where East Is East (1929) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Hallelujah (1929) His Glorious Night (1929) The Kiss (1929) Anna Christie (1930) Redemption (1930) The Divorcee (1930) The Rogue Song (1930) The Big House (1930) The Unholy Three (1930) Let Us Be Gay (1930) Billy the Kid (1930) Way for a Sailor (1930) A Lady's Morals (1930) Inspiration (1931) Trader Horn (1931) The Secret Six (1931) A Free Soul (1931) Just a Gigolo (1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) The Guardsman (1931) The Champ (1931) Possessed (1931) Private Lives (1931) Mata Hari (1931) Freaks (1932) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Grand Hotel (1932) Letty Lynton (1932) As You Desire Me (1932) Red-Headed Woman (1932) Smilin' Through (1932) Red Dust (1932) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) Strange Interlude (1932) Tugboat Annie (1933) Bombshell (1933) Eskimo (1933) Riptide (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) The Merry Widow (1934) What Every Woman Knows (1934) No More Ladies (1935) China Seas (1935) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) A Night at the Opera (1935) Riffraff (1936) Romeo and Juliet (1936) Camille (1936) Maytime (1937) A Day at the Races (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) The Good Earth (1937) Marie Antoinette (1938)

Writer	The Trap (1922)

People	Norma Shearer (wife) Irving Thalberg, Jr. (son)

Related	The Love of the Last Tycoon

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 2/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.