List of Unproduced Hitchcock Projects - Trap For A Solitary Man (1963)

Trap For A Solitary Man (1963)

Trap for a Solitary Man was scheduled to be directed by Hitchcock in widescreen by Twentieth Century-Fox. The story, based on the French play Piege Pour un Homme Seul by M. Robert Thomas, follows a young married couple on holiday in the Alps. The wife disappears, and after a prolonged search the police bring back someone they claim to be her; she even says she is the man's wife, but the man has never seen her before. The play was later adapted three times as TV movies: Honeymoon With a Stranger (ABC, 1969), One Of My Wives Is Missing (ABC, 1976) and Vanishing Act (CBS, 1986). It had previously been broadly adapted (without attribution) as the 1958 Associated British-Pathé feature Chase a Crooked Shadow.