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Pitfall(1948)
Status: Released
Date: 1948-08-11
69%
89 Votes
Time: 1h 26m
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Regal Films
Movie: Pitfall
Top 10 Billed 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
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