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{{InfoboxFound |title=<center>Crosstrap</center> |image=Laurencepayne.gif |imagecaption=Laurence Payne, one of the stars of the film. |status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> |datefound=2010<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179743/trivia/</ref> |foundby=[http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk Talking Pictures TV] }} '''''Crosstrap''''' is a 1962 British B-crime film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, starring Laurence Payne and Jill Adams, and based on a novel by John Newton Chance.<ref>[http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=53652 A review article for the film.] Retrieved 03 Nov '18</ref><ref>[http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/2018/02/crosstrap-1962-film.html Another review article.] Retrieved 03 Nov '18</ref> The plot involves a young couple who get caught up in a gang war in the English countryside. This film is the directorial debut of Hartford-Davis, one of the most prolific directors in British exploitation cinema, and features unusually graphic violence for the early 1960s. This led one reviewer to describe it as "a climactic bloodbath where corpses bite the dust as freely as Indians in a John Ford western." Upon its initial release, ''Crosstrap'' was shown as a supporting film in British cinemas, where it received generally negative reviews by critics, being labeled "brawny but brainless" by ''Kine Weekly'' magazine and "overacted, ludicrous, and amateurish" by the ''Monthly Film Bulletin''. Five years later, the film was re-released by another distributor, possibly in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the then recently-released ''Night of the Big Heat,'' which was also based on a novel by Chance. After this, the film disappeared with little indication of its screenings. As with Hartford-Davis' later film ''Nobody Ordered Love'', ''Crosstrap'' is listed by the British Film Institute as one of their 75 Most Wanted features.<ref>[http://www.bfi.org.uk/explore-film-tv/bfi-national-archive/archive-projects/bfi-most-wanted BFI 75 Most Wanted Films.] Retrieved 15 Mar '16</ref> For unknown reasons, the BFI never included the film in their archives, and all attempts to locate the prints have proven futile. British TV channel Talking Pictures TV is confirmed to own a copy of the film and seems to be the only source to own one. On July 30th, 2017, LMW user SADLAD84 received an email from Talking Pictures TV confirming that they have plans to release the film on DVD as part of their ''Crime Collection'' Volume 2 via their renown film club service. The DVD has since been released and is available below. ==External Links== *[http://www.renownfilms.co.uk/box-sets-c-15/the-renown-crime-collection-volume-2-p-770.html A link to the ''Crime Collection'' Volume 2 DVD.] *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosstrap Wikipedia page.] *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179743/ IMDb page.] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Found media]] [[Category:Found films]] [[Category:Pre-LMW]]
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