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

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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