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Pitfall

Pitfall

6.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

88

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1948

Release Year

86 min

Runtime

Drama
Crime

Overview

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

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Keywords

blackmail
film noir
los angeles, california
extramarital affair

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

May 19, 2019

7
7/10

In a rut and it's six feet deep. 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. M

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 12, 2025

7
7/10

So, first there’s insurance man “Forbes” (Dick Powell) who occasionally hires private investigator “Mac” (Raymond Burr) when he needs some prying done. It’s this latter fellow who discovers that “Mona” (Lizabeth Scott) has received a load of gifts from her now incarcerated boyfriend “Bill” (Byron Ba

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