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Man-Trap

Man-Trap is a 1961 American drama film about a Korean War veteran who becomes involved in a scheme to steal $3.5 million from a Central American dictator. The film was directed by Edmond O'Brien, and stars Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, and Stella Stevens.

Usage examples of "man-trap".

It must have been a great difficulty to the biographer to find his pathway cumbered by the volumes of 1883, set by his father as a plausible man-trap for future intruders.

Hamid gets caught in a man-trap, Breedy gives himself a nasty flesh-wound and Winters gets himself murdered.

I applied these tests and they convinced me that Poole knows nothing about the purloining or the setting of the man-trap.

Before that, a Victorian doll went and, with the man-trap, some sets of handmade cottage-industry buttons, a swingle and a couple of early nineteenth-century handmade smocks.

That was the day on which Dame Beatrice interviewed the schoolboys and established that they had been responsible for rigging up the scarecrows with the smocks they had found, had added the swingle, ignored the card of buttons and had seen neither the man-trap nor the doll.

Chettle smuggled out the man-trap, the swingle and those two large smocks without being spotted by the curator.