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Highway Pickup (1963)

Highway Pickup poster
Original title
Chair de poule
Directed by
Julien Duvivier
Genre
film noir, crime film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
18
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A drifter gets drawn into a shady plan involving a robbery with a married couple. The scheme spirals into double crosses and dangerous consequences.

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What happens

Chair de poule (French for "goosebumps") is a 1963 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel and Georges Wilson. The screenplay is based on the 1960 novel Come Easy, Go Easy by James Hadley Chase, which took several plot elements from the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain. The film was released in the United States as Highway Pickup. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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