Pickup (1951)
1h 18m
Running Time
July 21, 1951Release Date
Plot.
Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he has saved his money and goes to town to buy a dog, meets Betty, a flashy blonde who gains his confidence and marries him to acquire his $7,000 "fortune."
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Cast & Crew.
Hugo Haas
Jan Horak
Beverly Michaels
Betty
Allan Nixon
Steve
Howland Chamberlain
Professor
Jo-Carroll Dennison
Irma, Betty's friend
Arnold Lipp
Writer
Bernard Gorcey
Peddler with Dog
Mark Lowell
Counter-man
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Pickup is a 1951 American low-budget film noir starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Written and directed by Haas, a Czech actor and filmmaker, it was his first American film behind the camera. Haas, a refugee from German-occupied Europe, went on to make a series of gloomy noirs about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales.The film is based on a 1926 novel, Guard No. 47 by Josef Kopta, and has a plot similar to the 1946 film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), though with a much different ending.
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