Rat Trap
5.6
This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the idealistic nephew is rejected by his miserly relation, and he goes on to get involved with a shady woman and a band of gun runners who supply arms for the revolution of the week. Charles and his new girlfriend head for the border after a shootout with federal troops, and a kindly railroad worker hides the couple in an abandoned copper mine. Charles is later thrown in prison while the girl becomes a concubine, but her violator is killed when Charles escapes to rescue her and exact revenge. A pretty harrowing composition could be written by the young couple on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."
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Cast
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Charles Aznavour
Charles
Known for
Shoot the Piano Player
Ararat
Marie Laforêt
Maria
Known for
Purple Noon
Happy Easter
Franco Fabrizi
Paul
Known for
I Vitelloni
The Little Bather
Richard Badouh
Matias Ferreira Diaz
Also in
Thunder Among the Leaves
Sara Giménez
Also in
La burrerita de Ypacaraí
Operation Rosa Rosa
Emilio Gnocchi
Zuny Joy
Francois Prevost
Roberto Zelada
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco Director · Georges Garvarentz Composer Quinto Albicocco Cinematographer
First release June 8, 1963 · Produced in France, Italy · Production Madeleine Films, Zebra Film
Production
Franco London Films
Production
Madeleine Films
Production
Zebra Film
Production
France · Italy
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Original title
Le Rat d'Amérique
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · June 8, 1963
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No release date listed for United States.
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