Pickup (1951)
- Directed by
- Hugo Haas
- Genre
- drama film, film noir
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 21 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A middle-aged man becomes involved with a younger woman who leads him into trouble. The story follows his downward spiral and ends differently than similar tales.
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What happens
Pickup is a 1951 American film noir released by Columbia Pictures and starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Written and directed by Haas, a Czech actor and filmmaker, it was his American debut behind the camera and the first of a series of gloomy films about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales. The film is based on the 1926 novel Guard No. 47 by Josef Kopta, and its plot is similar to that of the 1946 film The Postman Always Rings Twice, although with a different ending. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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