Pitfall [Blu-ray]

Director: Andre De Toth Andre De Toth

Overview

The darker side of the American dream is explored in the fascinating film noir Pitfall. Dick Powell stars as John Forbes, a successful insurance man with a trophy wife named Sue (Jane Wyatt) and a model child named Tommy (Jimmy Hunt). Despite all that he's achieved in life, Forbes feels somehow unfulfilled. During an attempt to recollect illegally purchased goods by a convicted bank robber, Forbes falls for his glamorous client Mona Stevens (Lizabeth Scott). When she "comes on" to him, it sparks an affair between them. Forbes suffers the pangs of guilt, a fact immediately capitalized upon by the seedy private eye MacDonald (Raymond Burr), who is upset because Mona has rejected him. If adultery has been committed, can murder be far behind? Many individual scenes in Pitfall are standouts, notably a brief moment wherein Forbes' son Tommy suffers a horrible nightmare -- in almost exactly the same manner that child actor Jimmy Hunt would endure a similar bad dream in 1953's Invaders from Mars.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/17/2015
UPC:	0738329155421
Original Release:	1948
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kino Classics
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	22,239

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddie Muller; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dick Powell	John Forbes
Lizabeth Scott	Mona Stevens
Raymond Burr	J.B. MacDonald
Jane Wyatt	Sue Forbes
John Litel	District Attorney
Gig Young	Bill Smiley
Jimmy Hunt	Tommy Forbes
Ann Doran	Maggie
Selmer Jackson	Ed Brawley,Ed Brawley
Margaret Wells	Terry
Dick Wessel	Desk Sergeant
Byron Barr	Bill Smiley
Louis Forbes	Composer

Technical Credits

Karl Kamb

Andre De Toth	Director
Karl Kamb	Screenwriter
Samuel Bischoff	Producer,Producer
Frank Webster	Sound/Sound Designer