The Fire-Trap (1935)
1935 · Feature film · 62 min · dir. Burt P. Lynwood
- Romance
- Crime
Synopsis
An insurance investigator falls in love with a society girl, unaware that her uncle and his boss are conspiring to commit insurance fraud by overvaluing a decrepit warehouse and its contents and burning the building to the ground.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Burt P. Lynwood
- Studio
- Larry Darmour Productions
- Released
- 1935-11-26
- Running time
- 62 minutes
Cast & crew
- Burt P. Lynwood Director
Norman Foster
Evalyn Knapp
Oscar Apfel
Sidney Blackmer
Ben Alexander- Herbert Corthell
- Marie Callahan
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Romance, Arson, Dogs Don't Mix · bobsluckycat · 2014-06-03
A correction first; the Producer's name was Larry Darmour without the T (not Dartmour) and he was known mostly as a "B" producer of Westerns for Columbia Pictures and was very successful. See My reviews of "Suicide Squad" and "Behind The Green Lights" both also from 1935 for more about Norman Foster and Sidney Blackmer both here at the archive. "Fire Trap" tries hard to be a romance but the plotting of arson as a plot device really drags this down to a crawl. The last several minutes, especially with the fire in the shirt factory is fairly suspenseful (no doubt stock footage from a previous…
