The Trap is a 1966 British-Canadian adventure western film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham.

Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the film is an unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl.

At the settlement, a steamboat is landing and the Trader and his mute foster-child Eve arrive at the seaport to fetch mail and consumer goods.

The trader explains to Eve that the ship brings "Jailbirds ... from the east" and that "their husbands-to-be had bailed them out and paid their fines and their passages with a guarantee of marriage".

Next day, the trader's wife, to compensate for the loss of her savings, offers Eve for a thousand dollars to the simple-minded, rough-cut trapper.

La Bête's lower left leg is broken, so he asks Eve to bring the medicine man from the next Indian village, a two days trip away.

The morning after, Eve seems to regret her decision and leaves the cabin, holding a rifle against La Bête who follows her to the river, angry and perplexed.

[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Primitive saga of the pioneering backwoods, a simple story simply told.

Still, there is compensation in Robert Krasker's fine location photography (marred only by studio snow and some very obvious process shots) and in an excellently staged action sequence when the trapper is hunted by a pack of snarling wolves.

"[7] Leslie Halliwell said: "Primitive open air melodrama with good action sequences; well made but hardly endearing.

Set in Canada in the 1880s, it traces the relationship of fur trapper Reed and the waif-like Tushingham, a mute he purchases at a wife auction.