Pickup (1951)
They gave her a bad name... and she lived up to it!
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."
Casting
- Hugo Haas — Jan 'Hunky' Horak
- Beverly Michaels — Betty Horak
- Allan Nixon — Steve Kowalski
- Howland Chamberlain — 'The Professor', tramp
- Jo-Carroll Dennison — Irma, Betty's friend
- Bernard Gorcey — Peddler with Dog
- Mark Lowell — Counter-man
- Jack Daley — Company Doctor
- Art Lewis — The Motorist
- Marjorie Beckett — Woman In Crowd
- Murvyn Vye
Interesting facts
Pickup is a 1951 American film noir released by Columbia Pictures and starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Written and directed by Haas, a Czech actor and filmmaker, it was his American debut behind the camera and the first of a series of gloomy films about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales.
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