![]() ![]() The director of the film, John Frankenheimer, discovered the Elmore Leonard book and loved it. Like most films that never got their proper due, 52 Pick-Up has an unusual behind-the-scenes beginning. ![]() This movie starts out dark but gets positively pitch black by the end. But what begins as the usual “Pay up or your wife gets this tape!” type noir quickly descends into one of the darkest revenge thrillers ever put on film. ![]() The trio of gun wielding bandits show Mitchell very damning video evidence of his affair. His beautiful wife Barbara (Ann-Margret) is about to run for office, his patented metal smelting process is under lucrative contract with the US government, and he even has a sexy young mistress (Kelly Preston) that nobody knows about…or do they?Īs you can imagine his world is turned upside down when instead of finding his gorgeous girlfriend in their rendezvous motel room, he discovers three men in ski masks. 52 Pick-Up follows Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider), a middle-aged industrialist who seemingly has it all. 52-Pick-Up (1986) is a vastly underrated classic that deserves far more attention.īased on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name, this dark tale of extortion, kidnapping, and murder is without a doubt one of the most bleak seventies films ever made in ultra-bright 1986. ![]()
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