- 52 Pick-Up
Infobox Film
name = 52 Pick-Up
caption = 52 Pick-Up promotional movie poster
director =John Frankenheimer
producer =Yoram Globus andMenahem Golan
writer =Elmore Leonard (novel)Elmore Leonard andJohn Steppling (screenplay)
starring =Roy Scheider Ann-Margret
John Glover
VanityKelly Preston
music =Gary Chang
cinematography =Jost Vacano andStephen Ramsey
editing =Robert F. Shugrue
distributor =Cannon Group
released =November 7 1986
runtime = 110 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0090567Released in 1986, "52 Pick-Up" is an action/thriller that details blackmail and murder in the wake of an affair. The movie starsRoy Scheider andAnn-Margret , was directed byJohn Frankenheimer , and is based onElmore Leonard 's novel of the same name. The film's tagline is "His Wife... His Mistress... His Career... A Deadly Trap".Internet Movie Database Inc. (1990-2007). [http://imdb.com/title/tt0090567/ 52 Pick-Up] . Retrieved on March 25, 2007.] It was characterized in the year of its release byNew York Times movie criticJanet Maslin as being "...fast-paced, lurid, exploitative and loaded with malevolent energy. John Frankenheimer, who directed, hasn't done anything this darkly entertaining since 'Black Sunday.'" [New York Times Company (November 7, 1986). [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFDA1530F934A35752C1A960948260 Screen: '52 PICK-UP,' A No-Frills Thriller] byJanet Maslin . Retrieved on March 25, 2007.]Plot
Roy Scheider plays industrialist Harry Mitchell, a wealthy, married man living in the suburbs of
Los Angeles whose wife is running for city council while he is having an affair. Harry is confronted by three blackmailers demanding $105,000 for a videotape of him and his mistress (Kelly Preston ). Because of his wife's (Ann-Margaret ) political aspirations, he can't go to the police. In agreeing to pay the blackmailers money to keep his affair a secret, Harry opens his financial records to one of the blackmailers, Alan Raimy (John Glover). Seeing that Mitchell cannot pay the $105,000, Raimy accepts Harry's offer of $52,000. Harry then attempts to turn the blackmailers against one another.References
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