"The Wild Wild West" The Night of the Fatal Trap (TV Episode 1965) Poster

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6/10
Is it really a Wild Wild West episode?
searchanddestroy-17 February 2019
This is far from the best of the series. We don't have here any trace of the usual ingrédients of the show which usually bring its trade mark. No sci fi, nor weird elements. Which trap? This is a pure western topic, but after all W W W TV show is a western, isn't it? From time to time, I know there will be some episodes like this one.
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6/10
Fatal Trap is fully clashing with the exotic approaching on WWW's trademark!!!
elo-equipamentos7 December 2022
This specific episode somehow runs out of standards stablished as exotic Wild Wild West Series, an unusual plot goes into western pattern only, everything began with a bank robbery on the borderline between USA and Mexico where the burglars got escaped due the US's law doesn't allowed any arrest in Mexican territory, it is common knowledge this is a Mexican gang is led by a great farmer Colonel Francesco Vasquez (Ron Randell), soon our friends are tasked with to make draw up a plan in order to entice the whole gang to American territory to catch them.

Then Jim West appears as a famous wanted Thief at Mexican border city spreading cautiously hoping that such info reach at Vasquez's ears, helped by a disguised Artemus, the dared plan compresses in a million dollars in gold that will be transferred passing by a borderline city in USA's ground, exactly the same bank that was recurrently stolen by the gang, as always a beauty woman who already had some previously affair with Jim at Washington whom may spoils the whole scheme.

I'd rather those exotic episodes as WWW's trademark, we already have countless standard westerns enough available, the duo heroes outstands in supposed and imaginary scenario in western ground!!

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First watch: 2022 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 6.5.
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8/10
Too saddled by Western conventions?
blerpnor19 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Is "Night of the Fatal Trap" too conventional a Western for WWW's own good? Well, we have an amusingly seedy and double-dealing bad guy, memorably played by Ron Randell, and the hilarious Mojave Mike (played past the hilt by Ross Martin), plus a very suspenseful subplot involving a shady lady who recognizes West from a former encounter. Luckily, it turns out that the lady, Linda Medford, regards Jim as an expert confidence artist, and nothing more. Which Jim, to her credit, certainly is, but she doesn't even put things together upon visiting Jim and Artie's ritzy train accommodations. At any rate, this is one of those eps in which the bad gal isn't bad enough to turn over to the law--she's more oblivious than nefarious. The bad guy, meanwhile, is as bad as bad gets, and Randell's snaky, nearly nonstop grin has us wondering all the way: How much does he know? What does (or doesn't) he suspect? Not enough, clearly, since he fails to smell a trap until he spots the real Frank Slade wanted poster. Then, a race to freedom, the usual fight, and a fatal wreck. Pure cliché all the way, but pulled off so well, I'm giving it an 8.
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