The Trap (1966)

Living alone in the Canadian wilderness, a fur trapper (Oliver Reed) buys a mute girl (Rita Tushingham), sold against her wishes, for his "wife". Directed by Sidney Hayers (CIRCUS OF HORRORS). Handsomely shot in the rustic parts of British Columbia, this isn't a particularly fresh story. As expected, the brute of a mountain man softens and becomes more "civilized" because of the girl's influence and the girl toughens up till she's able to hunt and take responsibility for the both of them when the trapper becomes disabled. They've gone overboard in making Reed's crude trapper an absolute pig. During one scene when he's eating, it's as if he's imitating Henry VIII with grease and food caught in his beard and throwing bones on the floor! It's a brutal film including a graphic attack on Reed by some savage wolves. With Barbara Chillcot and Rex Sevenoaks.