• Film

Pitfall

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Time Out says

Rather flatly scripted, but a not uninteresting clash between moral tale and film noir. Powell plays the archetypal suburban man, blessed with family, home and job, but suffering a vague itch of awareness that life hasn't lived up to expectations. His work as an insurance claims agent lures him into involvement with a siren (Scott) and the inevitable aftermath of violence, deceit, and sudden death. From this he is rescued by the exercise of a double standard (Scott pays for her murder, Powell gets away with his); but the film still contrives a troubled intimation that things ain't quite what they used to be in suburbia. Burr, modelling himself on Laird Cregar (who would have made more of the role), gives one of his better performances as the hulking yet oddly pathetic private eye who digs the pitfall in trying to pursue his own hopeless infatuation.

Release Details

  • Duration:86 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:André De Toth
  • Screenwriter:Karl Lamb
  • Cast:
    • Dick Powell
    • Lizabeth Scott
    • Jane Wyatt
    • Raymond Burr
    • Byron Barr
    • John Litel
    • Ann Doran
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