Booby Trap

1957
1h 11m

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An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi.An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi.An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi.

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5.4/10

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Sydney Tafler

Mr. Hunter
(as Sidney Tafler)

Patti Morgan

Jackie

Harry Fowler

Sammy

Tony Quinn

Prof. Hasdane

Richard Shaw

Richards

Jacques Cey

Bentley

Richard Duke

Detective
(uncredited)

Ernest Fennemore

Soldier at Lecture
(uncredited)

Fred McNaughton

Syd
(uncredited)

Michael Moore

Curate
(uncredited)

George Roderick

Police Sergeant
(uncredited)

Jeff Silk

Soldier at Lecture
(uncredited)

Tony Spears

Soldier at Lecture
(uncredited)

John Watson

Maj. Cunliffe
(uncredited)

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Goofs
Given all the electronics also hidden inside of the pen, the amount of room left over for high explosives is very small. It would be more akin to setting off a firecracker in the car than a bomb.

Soundtracks
Tango Torment
(uncredited)
Music by Wilfred Burns
K P M Music Ltd

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7/10

Chimes at Midnight

A prequel to the James Bond series (played for laughs as Wilfred Burns gallumphing score keeps reminding us) in which a boffin absent-mindedly leaves the exploding fountain pen he's currently working on in a taxi and spends the rest of the film trying to recover it in a cynically observed fifties London rife with dope peddlers, mercenary blondes, 'blind' beggars that can see and sundry other lowlifes.