The Trap


1919

Brief Synopsis

A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York stockbroker, but doesn't tell him about her first marriage. Soon she is contacted by someone who threatens to tell her new husband all about her past if she doesn't pay up.

Film Details

Also Known As
A Woman's Law
Release Date
Aug 25, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.; Universal Special Attraction
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play The Trap by Richard Harding Davis, Jules E. Goodman (New York, 19 Feb 1915).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6 reels

Synopsis

Jean Carson, an Eastern bred girl who teaches school in the Yukon, marries Steve Fallon, a gambler, after her father and his partner Ned, who is Steve's brother and who also loves her, go prospecting for gold. She leaves Steve after he drunkenly boasts of having another wife elsewhere. When Ned returns and proposes, Jean confides in him. She travels to New York to visit her ill sister Helen, and after learning that Steve died, she marries Bruce Graham, a broker. Five years later, Jean is happily married with two children. Doc Sloan, a former gambling friend of Steve's, tells her that Steve is alive and threatens to reveal her past if she interferes with his pursuit of Helen. Ned, who now lives in New York, informs Jean that he buried Steve. Ned lures Sloan to his office to kill him and claim that the murder was done in self-defense, but Jean, hiding in an adjoining room, shoots Sloan herself. Ned takes the blame, but is acquitted, and marries Helen.

Film Details

Also Known As
A Woman's Law
Release Date
Aug 25, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.; Universal Special Attraction
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play The Trap by Richard Harding Davis, Jules E. Goodman (New York, 19 Feb 1915).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6 reels

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This film was released under the title A Woman's Law in Great Britain.