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The old golden age Warner Bros. crime dramas knew something that most modern movies have forgotten: Heroes are great, but a movie is only as good as its villain. John Frankenheimer's "52 Pick-Up" provides us with the best, most reprehensible villain of the year and uses his vile charm as the starting point for a surprisingly good film.
Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, this gritty movie follows a plot to blackmail wealthy industrialist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider). Married to an aspiring...
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Nov 22, 2018 · Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity and John Glover.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3HT3fVjDVD (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3...
52 Pick Up. 1986 · 1 hr 51 min. R. Thriller · Action · Crime · Drama. The wealthy husband of an aspiring politician gets caught in a compromising position with a young girl and becomes a target for blackmail and murder. Subtitles: English. Starring: Roy Scheider Ann-Margret Vanity. Directed by: John Frankenheimer.
52 pickup or 52-card pickup is a humorous prank which consists only of picking up a scattered deck of playing cards.
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000.
Roy Scheider ( Jaws, Cohen and Tate) plays a successful businessman whose life quickly falls apart when a compromising videotape of him and his mistress (Kelly Preston) becomes a tool for blackmail.
