Pitfall
A man can be as strong as steel...but somewhere there's a woman who'll break him!
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.
- Production
- Regal Films, United Artists
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Cast
Dick Powell
John Forbes
Lizabeth Scott
Mona Stevens
Jane Wyatt
Sue Forbes
Raymond Burr
MacDonald
John Litel
District Attorney
Byron Barr
Bill Smiley
Jimmy Hunt
Tommy Forbes
Ann Doran
Maggie
Selmer Jackson
Ed Brawley
Dick Wessel
Desk Sergeant
Eddie Borden
Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Don Haggerty
District Attorney's Man
David McMahon
Police Lieutenant
Charles Sherlock
Elevator Passenger
Cap Somers
Prisoner
Crew
- Director
- André de Toth
- Writers
- Karl Kamb,André de Toth,William Bowers
- Producers
- Samuel Bischoff
- Cinematography
- Harry J. Wild
- Composer
- Louis Forbes
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John Chard
May 19, 2019
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. Married insurance adjuster John Forbes (Powell) falls for femme fatale model Mona Stevens (Scott) while her boyfriend (Byron Barr) is in jail. And with Private Investigator J.B. MacDonald (Burr) fierce…
CinemaSerf
March 12, 2025
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 Barr) and so he sets off to reclaim their property. When he arrives, though, he takes quite a shine to “Mona” and despite being happily, if maybe a bit stagnantly, married to “Sue” (Jane Wyatt) they beg…