Crosstrap is a 1962 British B-movie[1] crime film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, starring Laurence Payne, Jill Adams and Gary Cockrell.

Monthly Film Bulletin said "Overacted, ludicrous and amateurish, this so-called thriller finally explodes in a merry crescendo of guns, fists and bloodletting.

The picture, cheap crime fiction, takes a long while to unravel its plot and then goes to the other extreme and polishes off the bad lads with ludicrous haste.

"[5] According to the British Film Institute (BFI), The Daily Cinema wrote: "incredible but lively tale of gang-warfare, packed with hearty action and intrigue, plus a spot of sex for flavour" offering "robust ... programme support", with a "climactic blood-bath where corpses bite the dust as freely as Indians in a John Ford western".

[citation needed] Crosstrap is viewed with interest by film historians as the debut of Hartford-Davis, who would go on to direct a number of cult 1960s films which pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable at the time in terms of sexual content (That Kind of Girl (1963), The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963)) or violence (Corruption (1968)), alongside others that provide a very time-specific depiction of Swinging London (Saturday Night Out (1964), The Sandwich Man (1966)).