52 Pick-Up (1986)

Review: 52 Pick-Up (1986)

Director: John Frankenheimer

Cast: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor,

Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret
Vanity
Vanity
John Glover
John Glover
Robert Trebor
Robert Trebor

Plot: Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.

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Another eclectic selection from my recent viewing, from an old fondly remembered BBC sci-fi series to an unsettling French psychological thriller, from a nasty John Frankenheimer thriller to a pair of atypical Rossellini features striving to […]

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