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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.
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Pitfall: Directed by André De Toth. With Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr. Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
- André De Toth
- 1948-08-24
Also in 1948, he stepped out of the brutish type when he starred in Pitfall, a film noir in which a bored insurance-company worker falls for an innocent but dangerous woman, played by Lizabeth Scott. He broadened his range appearing in a Western, Station West (1948) and a French Foreign Legion tale, Rogues' Regiment (1949).
Pitfall is directed by Andre De Toth and adapted to screenplay by Karl Kamb and William Bowers from the novel written by Jay Dratler. It stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt and Raymond Burr. Music is by Louis Forbes and cinematography by Harry Wild.
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.
The first encounter between bored, married insurance man John (Dick Powell) and world-weary model Mona (Lizabeth Scott), who's come to her apartment to collect gifts her now-convicted boyfriend purchased with embezzled funds, early in director Andre De Toth's Pitfall, 1948.
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Pitfall (1948) stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott and Raymond Burr, and is an essential film noir! With the war done and dusted, in fact, it seemed like a whole bunch of the film noir guys wanted a bit more action.
