52 Pick-Up

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52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up promotional movie poster
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan
Written by Elmore Leonard (novel)
Elmore Leonard and John Steppling (screenplay)
Starring Roy Scheider
Ann-Margret
Vanity
Music by Gary Chang
Cinematography Jost Vacano and Stephen Ramsey
Editing by Robert F. Shugrue
Distributed by Cannon Group
Release date(s) November 7 1986
Running time 110 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Released in 1986, 52 Pick-Up is an action/thriller that details blackmail and murder following in the wake of an affair. The movie starring Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret, was directed by John Frankenheimer and is based on the Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The film's tagline is "His Wife... His Mistress... His Career... A Deadly Trap".[1] It was characterized in the year of its release by New York Times movie critic Janet Maslin as being "...fast-paced, lurid, exploitative and loaded with malevolent energy. John Frankenheimer, who directed, hasn't done anything this darkly entertaining since 'Black Sunday.'"[2]

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Roy Scheider plays industrialist Harry Mitchell, a wealthy, married man living in the suburbs of Los Angeles who is running for city council and having an affair. Harry is confronted by three blackmailers demanding $100,000 for a video tape of him and his mistress. Because of his political aspirations, he can't go the police. Instead, he attempts to track them down and turn them against one another.[1]

Spoilers end here.

  1. ^ a b Internet Movie Database Inc. (1990-2007). 52 Pick-Up. Retrieved on March 25, 2007.
  2. ^ New York Times Company (November 7, 1886). Screen: '52 PICK-UP,' A No-Frills Thriller by Janet Maslin. Retrieved on March 25, 2007.

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