TomJH

*jamesjazzguitar wrote: But mention Bogie and Bacall and all one gets is 'how romantic'!* Well, I think, in retrospect, that there's a reason for that. Bogie and Bacall really did love one another, for starters. The marriage changed Bogart to a degree, as well. He became far more settled as a man, entering into fatherhood even if there was a little initial discomfort for him there. And to this day Bacall has pretty well nothing to say about him that isn't affectionate. Their marriage was not the ideal one, I know, that legend made it out to be (there has been talk, some of it pretty strong, of an affair on both their parts during the union) and that, of course, compromises the inclination to look upon their relationship with rose coloured glasses. In spite of that, I don't see any indication that, bumps and all that their marriage had, Bogie and Bacall weren't still in love with each other to the end. 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Don't let John Litel hear you say that.

Well, as I stated earlier to Dargo, James, I think it's far from a given that the police would have shot Smiley. They may have negotiated with him or intimated him into giving up. Who knows?

Yes, MissW, I agree with you that Uncle Charlie is genuinely fond of both his sister and niece and happy, initially, to be visiting the family. As much as I love watching Joseph Cotten in this film, one of my favourite scenes in it does not include him. That is the scene in which Teresa Wright, now suspicious of her uncle and desperate to know why he intentionally destroyed one page in a newspaper, goes to the town library to find that page. When she finally finds the page the camera scans down it until, BAM!, we (through her eyes) see an article about the Merry Widow Murderer. What really makes this scene a memorable one for me is composer Dimitri Tiomkin's decision to play the Merry Widow Waltz off key as the camera dwells on the page. Wright slowly and sadly rises from the table, and as she leaves the library Hitchcock pulls his camera back, reducing her in size to emphasize her emotional isolation at the moment. Behind the scenes This appears is be a multiple exposure of Alfred Hitchcock showing Teresa Wright how to effectively struggle on screen. Either that, or Wright had a heck of a rougher time working with the director than she ever let on.

Well, I will agree that Cotten had more charm than Casey Adams. Adams always had that canyon wide smile and the most obnoxious annoying laugh that I've ever heard, that went something like "YUCKYUCKYUCKYUCKYUCK!" Yuck is right! Well, Adams does have one of the more memorable lines in Niagara. After Monroe shows up in a low cut red dress, Adams subtlely explodes, "SOMEONE GET OUT THE FIRE HOSE!" Yuckyuckyuckyuckyuck!

I agree, mrroberts, that Cotten is sympathetic in Niagara. But I thought the performance lacked the charm and elegance that helps to make his work in the Hitchcock film so memorable.

*MissW wrote: Also, people are a lot more suspicious, and more aware, of, shall we say, aberrant behaviour, than folks were then. One reason why Hitch chose to set the story in a small community, with a "wholesome" family, is because their innocence in such matters would serve as a kind of blind for them. It simply does not occur to them that anyone living in their midst would be capable of murder, especially the kind which "Uncle Charlie" is guilty of.* That's an excellent point, MissW. One of the charms of this small town family is that they seem to be a little, well, naive. They have only known a small town existence and the abberant behaviour most often associated with the big city just wouldn't be a part of their combined histories. Therefore, what may seem obvious to us about Uncle Charlie's strange behaviour they would probably be inclined to dismiss. On the subject of Uncle Charlie, I've always regarded him as a bit of a tragic figure. Joseph Cotten shows us the disturbed psychosis, the "world is a filthy sty" mindset that he has which, in turn, has made him a psychopath without qualms about strangling an elderly woman. Cotten, however, also shows us another side of Charlie. He shows us an effortless charm and grace and elegance in the character, as well. Yes, I know that Charlie uses those virtues now as a fascade by which he deceives others, including potential victims. However, I like to think those same graces also represent the man that he might have been if it wasn't for his mental illness. I think Shadow of a Doubt is one of Hitchcock's best films, providing Joseph Cotten with one of the very best roles of his career. I often marvel at Cotten's work, particularly in the '40s. Not only could he play a smooth charmer such as in this film or Since You Went Away, but he was equally good at playing an ordinary everyman type who could be a little bit of a stumblebum (Journey Into Fear, The Third Man). Joe Cotten was in a lot of good movies but somehow never seemed to get the full attention that his performances deserved. Shadow of a Doubt is one of the opportunities he had in which I suspect most viewers would acknowledge his marvelous effectiveness, with a smooth surface charm masking a cold icy interior. Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt . . . 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Charming and elegant on the surface . . . 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But twisted and perverse inside, a man who sees the world as a filthy sty. What a great performance, frightening and yet, to me, oddly sympathetic for the man he might have been!

Who knows, Dargo. Maybe Ann Doran's character from Pitfall went home one night to hubby John Litel, and Litel said, "Hey, guess who I gave one of my patented lectures to today. Your boss!"

Yeah, I know what you mean, Dargo. That lecture by John Litel does have a Production Code feel to it, doesn't it? Not at all dissimilar to those closing seconds at the end of the MGM "Crime Doesn't Pay" series, when an authority figure turns to the camera and warns the audience against the avoidable perils of whatever that short's subject had been about.

Yes, but if Mason looked like Raymond Burr, Scott would be afraid of her own attorney.

Well, Dargo, if Powell had called the police when he got the word that Smiley was on the way, they may have been able to pick him up or negotiate with him outside the house before anything happened. Either that or if Smiley spotted police cars around the house he would have taken off and probably have been picked up by them later. In any event, if the police had been called instead, things couldn't have gotten any worse for Smiley than turned out to be the case. Glad you enjoyed Pitfall. I believe that TCM has shown all of Dick Powell's films from his late '40s-early '50s tough guy-film noir period over the past few years. (There aren't that many of them, unfortunately). The one exception is a hunt-for-the-Nazi in the French Foreign Legion 1948 drama called Rogues Regiment. The channel only showed To the Ends of the Earth once, though, to the best of my knowledge. And it is one of the best of the entire collection, as far as I'm concerned. A 1948 Columbia release, it casts Powell as a U.S. narcotics agent on an international hunt for opium smugglers. The film does a lot of fast paced world travel in that hunt, too, from the mid-East to Cuba, filmed in a semi-documentary style, and with a corker of a surprise ending. Here's hoping TCM plays this baby again some time.

I gather by your comment then, James, that you agree with me in my assessment of Uncle Charley's family not readily picking up on his peculiar behaviour. Love, as they say, blinds.

I can't really agree, Andy, that the family should have seen through the pecularities of Uncle Charley mainly because he is well established as such a beloved figure with that family beforehand. Call it the rose coloured glasses syndrome, if you wish. The audience, of course, knows from its first sighting of Cotten lying on his bed alone in that shoddy room that something is "off" about him, and see him soon on the run from two undercover agents. But his family, on the other hand, in particular that sister who absolutely adores him, will be blind for a long time to pecularities that a more objective observer (such as yourself) would pick up on. The family has blinders on, not because they're particularly slow witted, but because he's a family member they haven't seen in a long while and they are happy to see back in their home again. Of course, with time, Teresa Wright's character starts to have the very growing suspicions about him of which you speak.

Well, James, prison released or not, Smiley was the jealous type. Wasn't the gun that he got given to him by Raymond Burr, who kept egging him on? Burr had more to do with the events that ensued than any of those hardened shoulders Smiley rubbed up against in prison. I agree with you about Jane Wyatt but then I liked all the cast in Pitfall. I like Dick Powell's minimalist acting style in the film noirs he made. I don't see a lot of ego in him as an actor, trying to hog the spotlight for himself. And he could be generous, too, in letting another actor have that spotlight if the film benefited from it (I'm thinking, in particular, of Richard Erdman's supporting performance in Cry Danger, a film on which Powell was producer so he really called the shots). There are few film careers that had a screen image change quite as dramatic (and effective) as Dick Powell's.

One of my favourite moments in Juarez occurs when the mad Carlotta, (Bette Davis) sitting in her chair in Paris, rises from that chair and walks to the window, raises her arm and calls out her husband's name. "Maxel," she says. The scene then dissolves to Maximillian in Mexico nobly walking to his death as he faces a firing squad. Carlotta's scream of "Maxel!" can be briefly heard and, as she does so, Brian Aherne, as Maximillian, momentarily turns his head to the side, almost as if he can hear her.

Well, James, what kind of a self respecting film noir would it be if everyone in it didn't have a gun tucked away somewhere? If Dick Powell's family had had a dog, I've sure the dog would have chewed on his bone until it was shaped like a gun. The better to kill you with, my dear. Look, even Dick Powell's shadow had one in the publicity still!

Maybe next time I'll hold off on a reply and let you do all the typing, James. And, yes, when Powell has that impulsive dinner date with Scott, he does miss an evening bridge game involving his wife and business co-hort. The film does skirt over any explanation that he undoubtedly would have had to supply. I hadn't noticed that before.

TB, we definitely have different interpretations of the characters in this film. Nor do I quite understand your logic. On the one hand you refer to Dick Powell as being "evil" and even, though there is absolutely no evidence of it, a wild speculation that he could be a stalker (like Burr). On the other hand, you refer to wife Wyatt as being a "villain" for preventing this potential "evil stalker" from finding true happiness with Lizabeth Scott. Just who, if anyone, are your sympathies with? The "villain" wife for trying to keep her marriage together or the "evil potential stalker" denied true happiness with another woman? In my opinion, Dick Powell's character is no evil character or stalker. He is a flawed everyman who made a mistake and regrets it. That makes him pretty human, as far as I'm concerned. Even in the scene in the bar in which Scott lets him know that she knows he's married, she beats him to the punch. It's apparent that when Powell says there's "a couple of things I should have mentioned before" that he is about to do the decent thing and finally be upfront with her about his marriage. Nor is he evil for killing a poor jealous manipulated former boyfriend. Burr is the evil one for having created that scenario and confrontation in the first place. Powell made another mistake by not calling the police and, in the true tradition of film noir, events suddenly spiralled out of his control. Powell is hardly trigger happy. He first confronts the boyfriend outside, getting the drop on him, and tells him to leave. It's only when the boyfriend then breaks a window that shots are fired. Yes, Powell will always feel guilt over another man's death because it could have been avoided, and, yes, he was wrong to allow himself to temporarily succumb to Scott, but that hardly makes him qualify as "evil." And that comment I made about Burr being sweet and vulnerable was obviously made in jest.

Yes, lavender, I agree. Burr's obsessive character must remind many viewers of someone they may have known or heard about. Very creepy. You can never be sure how far someone like that may go. And you're right. Burr's manipulative character is the reason one man died and a decent woman is going to prison. How many people would NOT sympathize with Scott when she pulled that trigger?

Burr was really just a sweet, vulnerable guy badly in need of a girlfriend. Powell already had it all, the safe job, the wife, the son, the home in the suburbs. Now he was trying to move in on a girl that was just Raymond's type. Who can blame Burr for getting a little cranky?

My interpretation of Wyatt seemingly not questioning Powell about his late night is because she completely trusted him as a safe, reliable husband. Lizabeth Scott's character in the film is completely sympathetic and decent. She just has a jinx in her relationships. I noticed that the scene in which Scott and Powell begin their affair was really played down. Scott, not knowing that Powell is married, makes the first physical move by impulsively kissing him, to which he responds. The scene quickly fades out, with the next scene in the film the one outside Powell's garage, with Burr waiting for him in the bushes. The emphasis is really upon Burr's psychotic creepiness and sudden burst of violence upon Powell, rather than Powell's infidelity.

TB, if your idea of a reconnection with Scott is of Powell visiting her in prison, that makes perfect sense to me. He's a decent human being and undoubtedly feels a large degree of guilt, not only over having killed Scott's jealous boyfriend, but over Scott's fate, as well. He may well try to help her out financially in the future, too, if the opportunity arises. But that is independent of a marriage which, while it will undoubtedly have some rocky times ahead, he will still try to make work. Don't forget, after Scott found out that Powell was married and wanted to end the affair, he gave her no argument. He could have said, "To heck with that marriage. You are my kindred soul, the one I want" but he didn't. He went back to Wyatt and was soon giving his son a lecture about people not appreciating what they already have in life, of always thinking the other person has it better. The audience knows that Powell was obviously referring to the way he was before, but now he has a renewed appreciation of what a solid family life he has. I see no indication that after the unexpected events of that final night, tragic as they are, that Powell would have changed his mind about his determination to make the marriage work. Those two shootings, however, and Wyatt's awareness of his infidelity, will make it harder for him, no doubt. But even Wyatt in that final scene questions how much a man who has been a good husband should suffer for the one time he failed. I see a woman who is understandably angry and hurt but I do not see any sense of vindictiveness in her. I see a woman who still wants to have a marriage work but with a renewed perspective that her very human husband is not quite the all-round great guy that she thought he was before. As for twinkeee's comment that Powell does not look happy in the final scene and as if he has his mind elsewhere, I guess so! He just shot a man to death hours before and has since found out that Lizabeth Scott is facing the repercussions of the law for a shooting of her own, for which he may well feel partially responsible, as well. Powell has very good reasons to not look happy in that final scene, reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with his marriage to Jane Wyatt. But at least we all in agreement that Pitfall and the interrelations of its characters all captured our interest enough to make these speculations. It's a good film noir that deserves to be better known.

If you seriously consider Wyatt to be a villain, I can only say that you picked up on perceived subtleties in her characterization that are far from obvious to me (and many other viewers, too, I very strongly suspect). As for Powell eventually reuniting with Scott, since Scott may be facing a long strength in the pen or even the death penalty, depending upon what happens to Burr and the state in which the film is set, that's quite a leap in logic. I do agree, however, that the film's ending is far from happy and an appropriate one, too, I might add. Pitfall's a good movie, one good enough to prompt some viewers to come up with conjectures about the future of its participants.

*TB wrote: Powell was going to spend the rest of his life serving a sentence of punishment in the wife's prison. She's the real villain of the piece.* You have a far harsher intrepretation of Wyatt's character than do I, based on that final scene. She is hardly a villainess, ready to make her wayward husband pay for his indiscretion for all eternity. While it is obvious that the couple is in far some rocky times ahead (clearly his fault), the impression to me is that Wyatt and Powell are going to try to get past all that has just occurred and probably still make the marriage work. At the end, the audience's sympathy is with Lizabeth Scott, though her exact fate, of course, is uncertain.

While both Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott are names associated with film noir, it's interesting that in Pitfall both of them played characters that one might not quite have expected of them. Scott, rather than playing a repeat of the femme fatale is, instead, surprisingly winning and sympathetic as an essentially decent sort who has had bad luck in her relationships, and here she is again, jinxing herself, by falling in love with a married man. Powell also stepped away from the cool tough guy persona first established in Murder My Sweet to play an initially conservative type who could even be regarded as a bit of a stuffed shirt. He played the type of flawed character with whom many in the audience could identify. Like Scott, he is essentially a decent person but he allows himself (from boredom?) to succumb into an affair, even though he has the sort of wife and child at home that many would want to have. It's the normality of Powell's family situation and how events spiral out of control for him, resulting in the possibly of the destruction of that family, that helps to make Pitfall as intriguing as it is. That, plus, of course, a chilling performance by Raymond Burr.