“The definitive film noir by Andre de Toth, Pitfall is a taut melodrama which questions whether a wife should forgive her husband's one moment of weakness, when the wife is Jane Wyatt, the husband Dick Powell and the moment of weakness is Lizabeth Scott. With the minimum of unnecessary dialogue, an intelligent use of Los Angeles locations, and thanks to superior performances by Dick Powell, in one of the first and best of his dramatic roles, and Raymond Burr, also making one of his earliest screen appearances, de Toth creates the milieu of middle-class terror, accentuated by carefully orchestrated mood photography. Here, as Cecilia Ager wrote in the New York Star, is ‘an honest, plausible, understanding picture.'” Anthony Slide