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Dick Powell. Actor: Murder, My Sweet. Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs. Powell grew up in the town of Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three brothers (one of them, Howard, ended up as vice ...
Pitfall (1948) Pitfall. (1948) Directed by Andre de Toth. Insurance agent Dick Powell falls for femme fatale Lizabeth Scott, whose thug boyfriend has been bilking the insurance company. No one takes the high road in this noir classic. 35mm, b/w, 85 min. Part of: The Big Combo (1955); Pitfall (1948) @ the Million Dollar Theater.
Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by André de Toth. The film is based on the novel The Pitfall by Jay Dratler and stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Wyatt, and features Raymond Burr.(Wikipedia) Originally Broadcast: 11/8/1948. Chesterton Radio Playing the Classics! Works of G.K. Chesterton and Friends
The sins of the streets invade the living room in André de Toth’s “Pitfall.”. If there was ever a male lead that could convincingly play the innocent patsy as well as the gumshoe, it was Dick Powell. The boy musical ingenue turned noir icon puts his sweet and salty sides to use in “Pitfall.”. As an insurance investigator weary of a ...
Station West (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Ain't Dead Yet Straight from a Burl Ives vocal under the credits, the aftermath of a gold robbery and Dick Powell arriving in town, the exterior certainly Sedona, Az, probably day-for-night, where Burl as the innkeeper resumes the song, opening director Sidney Lanfield’s taut, overlooked Western, Station West, 1948, also starring Jane Greer.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. The darker side of the American dream is explored in the fascinating film noir Pitfall. Dick Powell stars as John Forbes, a successful insurance man with a trophy wife named Sue (Jane Wyatt) and a model child named Tommy (Jimmy Hunt). Despite all that he's achieved in life, Forbes feels somehow unfulfilled.
Pitfall (1948) -- (Movie Clip) She Probably Doesn't Appeal To You Ending their day-long first encounter, including boating, married insurance man John (Dick Powell) leaves model Mona (Lizabeth Scott), from whom he was collecting ill-gotten gains, sneaks home late, then handles creepy P-I Mac (Raymond Burr), in Pitfall, 1948, directed by Andre De Toth.
