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The Tender Trap | 
| Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Lola Albright, Madge Blake, Jack Boyle, Lennie Bremen, James Drury
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 16658
Format: Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000015050
UPC: 012569647473
EAN: 0012569647473
ASIN: B00143XE2I
Theatrical Release Date: November 4, 1955
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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Amazon.com Essential Video
It's the total ring-a-ding lifestyle: hep Manhattan pad, fishbowl-sized martini pitcher, and a long list of female companions. Then swinging bachelor Frank Sinatra has his style cramped by a chaste and very organized young Debbie Reynolds. Her detailed blueprint for courtship and marriage forms The Tender Trap's supposedly comic premise, although the results are fairly tepid. Even those expert supporting players David Wayne and Celeste Holm, as Frank's best buddy and most loyal girlfriend, don't have their usual zing. The stage origins of the material are all too evident, with much of the action set in Sinatra's enormous apartment (which is worth a look for future archivists trying to re-create an era). There's the Oscar-nominated title song, of course, which is still a dandy--and you'll hear it about five times, including a pre-credits sequence with Sinatra (apparently as himself, not his character) crooning to the camera. --Robert Horton
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 Great little movie! December 3, 2003
Boy, the reviewers here are pretty harsh on this movie. Calling it dated is like calling Snow White or Cinderella unrealistic. It's a frothy funny well-written & well-acted film with one of Sinatra's most engaging performances in it & some great support from Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne & Celeste Holm. Plus one hilarious set-piece scene about a hung-over morning after. Directed by the mostly unsung Charles Walters who started off as a fine dancer & great choreographer. Well-worth watching. By the way, Robert preston was in the original Broadway version the year before.
Worth it for the title song. December 3, 2003
I didn't grow up with Frank Sinatra, so the title song was just a nice Sinatra tune I'd heard a few times before I saw this film. Watching Debbie Reynolds and Sinatra perform it was sublime. (the 'finale' performance is dreadful, however)As for the film itself, all you really need to know is that Sinatra is the New York bachelor, still playing the field into his thirties. Reynolds is dead-set on getting married: she has a deadline picked out, among other things. Sinatra goes after Reynolds. While at first I found Reynolds' character to be over the top, the scene in which she's scouting out her future home decorations sold me. She's eccentric, but once she finds her man she nestles right in. Sinatra is right at home in the role, of course. As to the plot, it does drag, but I think the only thing this film is guilty of is treating the issues it brings up with respect. Naturally, it all comes to the climactic conflict, and I applaud The Tender Trap for not sweeping it out of the viewer's mind as cleanly as another light-hearted film might. The characters are in a mess, and the innocent (or foolish) stand to get hurt. The film takes the time to resolve each of their situations admirably. It's not the swiftest wrap-up, but I think it pays off for the patient. And then you can rewind it and watch Sinatra and Reynolds perform (Love Is) The Tender Trap all over again.
 The Terrifying Trap! October 25, 2003
I expected this to be a musical, based on the cast and the cute song "The Tender Trap," but in fact that's the only song in it. The character Debbie Reynolds plays is positively psychotic (I had hoped she would be funny). The plot drags on about an hour too long, and none of the characters are likable, except Celeste Holmes and Frank Sinatra's dog. What a waste of a great cast!
Dated But Still Entertaining August 12, 2003
THE TENDER TRAP is a movie about a New York bachelor (Frank Sinatra) who has a bevy of girls flowing through his New York apartment to the amazement of his old friend (David Wayne). Wayne is a married man from Indiana who is visiting without his family and staying with Sinatra. A seemingly naive but determined young actress (Debbie Reynolds) from Scarsdale eventually puts an end to Sinatra's fun by springing her own tender trap. Before this happens she gets a lot of competition from a slightly older woman (Celeste Holm). At one point Sinatra is engaged to both women.The film may be quite dated but it is still entertaining. The supporting cast includes Carolyn Jones and Lola Albright. Charles Walters also directed EASTER PARADE and HIGH SOCIETY. THE TENDER TRAP received an Oscar nomination in 1955 for Best Song ("Love is the Tender Trap").
GET COUGHT IN THE TRAP THE TENDER TRAP November 27, 2001
THIS IS A GREAT FILM FOR SINATRA FANS AND REYNOLDS FANS ALIKE. THEY SEEM SO WORK SO WELL TOGEATHER, IN THE FILM REYNOLDS PLAYS A CHICK WHO IS VARY REFIND BUT YET KINKY IN HER OWN WAY AND SINATRA PLAYS THE HIP YOUNG PLAY BOY TYPE WITH SOME GOOD JOKES TO BACK IT ALL UP. THERE IS ALSO A GREAT SONG IN THE FILM BY TWO OF MY FAVORITE COMPOSSERS SAMMY CAHN AND JIMMY VAN HEUSEN WHO WROTE SONGS FOR MANY OF SINATRA'S FIMS. I REALLY LIKE THIS FILM AND IM SURE YOUR GONNA LIKE IT TOO!
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