Pitfall
“A man can be as strong as steel...but somewhere there's a woman who'll break him!”
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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Cast
20 people
Dick Powell
John Forbes
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Lizabeth Scott
Mona Stevens
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Jane Wyatt
Sue Forbes
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Raymond Burr
MacDonald
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John Litel
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Byron Barr
Bill Smiley
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Jimmy Hunt
Tommy Forbes
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Ann Doran
Maggie
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Selmer Jackson
Ed Brawley
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Margaret Wells
Terry
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The Bishop's Wife
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Dick Wessel
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Eddie Borden
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André de Toth Director · William Bowers Screenplay Karl Kamb Screenplay
Budget $1M · United States release August 11, 1948 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$1,000,000
Production
Regal Films
Production
United Artists
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 11, 1948
Limited theatrical · Atlantic City, New Jersey
United States
August 19, 1948 · Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
August 24, 1948 · Theatrical
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