My copy of this film is very poor and the score is rubbish-a tweety fairground organ playing chirpy music on a loop! Chaney's character, Gaspard, goes from being good to bad too easily but the process whereby he learns to love the son of his nemesis is tenderly done. When his fiendish plan to destroy his enemy puts the lad in danger, Gaspard sees the error of his ways and becomes good again. When this movie was shown at the Imperial Hall, Walsall, in 1923, the reviewer had high praise for it, so maybe a better copy with a better score would elicit a better review from me, but for now, this is one of the worst Chaney films I have seen to date.
Review of The Trap
