Although director Rene Clement's golden years were well behind him when he made The Deadly Trap, it remains the best of his later films. The initial build-up to the suspense is more Hitchcock than Clement and, although subsequent developments in the espionage/kidnap plot (faintly reminiscent of The Man Who Knew Too Much) don't always work on the same exciting level, there's no doubt that, purely as a thriller, the film does its job well. Faye Dunaway is as good as ever as the mother who begins to doubt her own reason, and the father of the kidnapped children is played by Frank Langella, later to portray Count Dracula.

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