On this day in movie history - X Marks the Spot (1942):

X Marks the Spot

directed by George Sherman,

written by Richard Murphy and Stuart Palmer,

based on a story by Mauri Grashin and Robert T. Shannon,

was released in the United States on November 4, 1942.
Music by Morton Scott.

Cast:

Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue, Damian O'Flynn, Robert Homans, Anne Jeffreys, Dick Wessel, Esther Muir, Joe Kirk, Edna Harris, Fred Kelsey, Vince Barnett, Jane Allen, Sam Bernard, Edmund Cobb, Chester Conklin, Martin Faust, Jack Gardner, Richard Landry, Sam Lufkin, Peggy Lynn, Jerry Mandy, Frank Marlowe, Charles McAvoy, Frank O'Connor.

On this day in movie history - Pitfall (1948):

Pitfall,

directed by André de Toth,

written by Karl Kamb, André de Toth and William Bowers,

based on the novel The Pitfall by Jay Dratler,

was released in the United States on August 24, 1948.
Music by Louis Forbes.

Cast:
Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel, Byron Barr, Jimmy Hunt, Ann Doran, Selmer Jackson, Margaret Wells, Dick Wessel.