Pick-up

Pick-up (1933)

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.

Date de sortie
1933-03-24
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (7)
Durée
1 h 16 min
Genres
Crime, Drame
Réalisateur
Marion Gering

Distribution

Anecdotes

Pick-Up is a 1933 American pre-Code crime film directed by Marion Gering and starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft.

Production

The film was based on a short story by Vina Delmar which was voted one of the best short stories of 1928–29.

Film rights were bought by Paramount who announced in May 1932 the film would star Carole Lombard and George Raft. Then Raft was replaced by Gary Cooper. Eventually in October 1932 Sylvia Sidney and George Raft were cast, Raft replacing Cooper, who had been held up making a movie at MGM. Raft and Sidney would reteam several times.

In September Courtney Terret was working on the script.

Marion Gering was assigned to direct in November 1932.

The posters' Pre-Code tagline was "Pick-Up will make Bad Girl look like Sweet Sue from Keokuk!"

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