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Pickup is a 1951 American low-budget film noir starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Written and directed by Haas, a Czech actor and filmmaker, it was his first American film behind the camera.
Pickup: Directed by Hugo Haas. With Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain. A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.
In the 1950’s, Czech émigré Hugo Haas made a string of low-budget noirs in which he starred as a naïve (and often cuckolded) chump stuck on a no-good, manipulative blond played by either Cleo Moore or Beverly Michaels: Pickup was the first and arguably the best.
Overview. Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he has saved his money and goes to town to buy a dog, meets Betty, a flashy blonde who gains his confidence and marries him to acquire his $7,000 "fortune." Hugo Haas. Director, Screenplay.
An older immigrant widower with a lonely, isolated life running a railroad water stop in the desert falls for a much younger beauty. After they marry, she resents his contentment with his life and his reluctance to spend his money, and starts trying to figure out how she can kill him. — <cantor@sirius.com>
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.
You get Hugo Haas’s Pickup. Lonely widower Jan Horak (Haas) falls for cheap floozy Betty (Beverly Michaels), and who could blame him? She marries him for his money, and he thinks they’re happy until he discovers how duplicitous she really is.
