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No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Screening 1 of 5\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>Hearst Metrotone News: “Now They're Mr. and Mrs. Dick Powell”\u003C/h2>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1936\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Language: \u003C/strong>English\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>30 sec.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Screening 2 of 5\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>Hearst Metrotone News: “That ‘New Look’ In Men's Hats!”\u003C/h2>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1948\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>1 min.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W. 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B&W.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Screening 5 of 5\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>Pitfall\u003C/h2>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1948\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Language: \u003C/strong>English\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>86 min.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Described as “tight, swift and sexy” by the \u003Cem>Los Angeles Daily News\u003C/em>, Jay Dratler’s 1947 novel \u003Cem>The Pitfall\u003C/em> was a perfect vehicle for Hungarian émigré and hard-hitting genre director André de Toth. Despite jettisoning the novel’s more salacious moments due to Hays Code restrictions, screenwriter Karl Kamb and an uncredited William Bowers perfectly capture the trappings of infidelity, larceny and obsession, played out in sun-drenched post-war Southern California (as opposed to the rainy back alleys typical of the noir genre). The Regal Films production was shot at General Service Studios in Hollywood by longtime RKO cinematographer and frequent noir contributor Harry J. Wild. Iconic Los Angeles locations such as Santa Monica Bay, the downtown May Co. Building and the Hall of Justice were also utilized.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Former Warner Bros. song and dance man Dick Powell had already proven his noir chops as hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe in 1944’s \u003Cem>Murder, My Sweet\u003C/em>, and he is impeccably cast as bored, married insurance man John Forbes, whose life is about to spiral out of control after meeting the alluring Mona Stevens, played by Lizabeth Scott. Raymond Burr had mostly been relegated to bit parts in the nine films he completed in 1948; \u003Cem>Pitfall \u003C/em>provided a breakout co-starring role, as private investigator J. B. MacDonald, which he plays with subversively kinky malice.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Aided by a script that flips the traditional femme fatale archetype, Scott’s luminous portrayal reveals a more textured and sympathetic victim of circumstance, given that her character is the target of three wildly different and problematic men. The \u003Cem>New York Times \u003C/em>heralded Scott as “provocative, and acting better than she has ever done before,” and the performance is now considered one of her greatest. Despite some of its atypical attributes, \u003Cem>Pitfall\u003C/em> is a deftly executed meditation on the degeneration of mid-century masculinity, and it stands as one of the great entries in the noir genre.—\u003Cem>Todd Wiener \u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cstrong>Production:\u003C/strong> Regal Films, Inc. \u003Cstrong>Distribution:\u003C/strong> United Artists.\u003Cstrong> Producer:\u003C/strong> Samuel Bischoff. \u003Cstrong>Director:\u003C/strong> André de Toth. \u003Cstrong>Screenwriter:\u003C/strong> Karl Kamb. Based on the novel by Jay Dratler. \u003Cstrong>Cinematographer:\u003C/strong> Harry Wild. \u003Cstrong>With:\u003C/strong> Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Restoration funding provided by the Century Arts Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from acetate dupe picture negatives and track negatives. 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