Pickup

1951
Approved
1h 18m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

939

MA NOTE

Beverly Michaels and Allan Nixon in Pickup (1951)

Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike up this flick.

Liretrailer1 min 23 s

1 vidéo

28 photos

Film Noir Drama

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA lonely widower marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.A lonely widower marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.A lonely widower marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

939

MA NOTE

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Prix
- 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
A "Hunky" was a nickname for Hungarian people used at the time of this film. Mostly it was used in a derogatory manner.

Gaffes
(at around 53 mins) Steve asks Jan (still believing Jan cannot hear) if he wants to play gin rummy, sits down at the table, and puts the deck of cards in front of Jan. Jan cuts the deck, so Steve takes the cards back to deal, but he deals too many cards. (In gin rummy, each player is supposed to be dealt 10 cards with the 21st card being placed face-up to begin play.) Steve deals 13 cards to Jan and 12 to himself, telling Jan to "throw first"; this may be a local variant of the game instead of beginning with a face-up card; however, the excess cards dealt is an error.

Citations
Steve: Say, weren't you running around with Skippy Fraser about a year ago?
Betty: ... That phony! He was no good. What'd he tell you?
Steve: All kinds of things.
Betty: Good or bad?
Steve: That depends. I liked them!
Betty: You guys tell each other everything, eh?
Steve: You girls don't?

Connexions
Referenced in Dungeon Girl (2008)

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actually pretty nice

It's pretty difficult to dismiss Haas as an 'sleazy, murky old guy' or 'The Bad Director' in his exile days (read US, later). He's trying hard and the pictures do have some bright moments, when you feel like as if it was a serious drama, or when you laugh hard. The problem is -- for some people -- that you get both in one package and that you might laugh at places where it wasn't intended. But I enjoyed this picture -- and I am not saying this only because of my hurt national pride or something.