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This package features father and son actors Lloyd and Jeff Bridges in two tales of fast-paced drama. TRAPPED is taut, unpretentious thriller directed by Richard Fleischer. The film begins in semi-documentary style, explaining the workings of the U.S. Treasury Department, and then follows the chain of events set in motion when a forged $20 bill is discovered in California. However, it takes a dramatic turn when treasury agents in Washington D.C. recognize the source of the forged bill and travel to a penitentiary in Atlanta to interview Chris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges)-Stewart is in jail for passing forged bills from that source. The agents engineer a fake escape for Stewart, so that he can lead them to the source of the forgeries. But, Stewart has others ideas and slips his minders. Whether it is in A-features like those later in his career, or small B-pictures like TRAPPED, Fleischer obtains forceful performances from his actors. Lloyd Bridges uncovers a violent unpredictableness. Other noteworthy performances in Barbara Payton as Stewart's girl, and John Hoyt as a determined agent masquerading as a small time crook.
The second film in the pack is certainly not one of the films that defines Jeff Bridges' career, as this was made when he was still new to the business. THE THIRD EYE, however, has a charmingly homespun directorial style and an impressive cast undertaking admirably bizarre characters, such as the normally uptight James Mason pushing his boundaries as a Mexican-Chinese mobster. This kind of weird retro energy, reminiscent of the line up of bad guys in AUSTIN POWERS, is highly appealing on a number of levels. Written and directed by Burgess Meredith, THE THIRD EYE (Also known as THE YIN AND YANG of MR. GO) features a CIA agent (Jeff Bridges) on the trail of the plans for a weapons system so powerful they could spark a world disaster. His search leads him to Hong Kong, where a Russian scientist blackmails him.
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