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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.
A lonely widower marries a young woman who wants to kill him for his money. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this drama film directed by Hugo Haas.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Hugo Haas
- 1951-07-24
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.
Pickup is a 1951 film about a widowed railroad dispatcher who marries a con artist for his money. The movie is directed by Hugo Haas and based on a novel by Arnold Lipp.
A lonely widower marries a young woman who wants to kill him for his money. He regains his hearing and foils their plot in this film noir directed by Hugo Haas.
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.
