52 Pick-Up (Blu-ray) R
His Wife... His Mistress... His Career... A Deadly Trap
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roy Scheider & Ann-Margret | |
Performer: | John Glover, Vanity, Clarence Williams III, Doug McClure, Kelly Preston, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman & Alex Henteloff | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Robert F. Shugrue | |
Screenplay by | Elmore Leonard & John Steppling | |
Original story by | Elmore Leonard | |
Composition by | Gary Chang | |
Produced by | Menahem Golan & Yoram Globus | |
Director of Photography: | Jost Vacano | |
Executive Production by | Henry Weinstein |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A movie is only as good as its villain. John Frankenheimer's 52 Pick-Up provides us with the best, most reprehensible villain of the year and uses his vile charm as the starting point for a surprisingly good film.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/4 --
...may very well suffer from mismatched sensibilities.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Overbaked, underfed Elmore Leonard adaptation.
eFilmCritic.com
Enjoyably degenerate
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CinePassion
Rating: 1.5/4 --
...a thriller that's woefully lacking in thrills...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 7/10 --
Roy Scheider is at his hard-boiled best and John Glover is a loathsomely slimy villain in this tough thriller that was quite graphic for its time. Sometimes unpleasant, but always interesting.
FulvueDrive-in.com
Rating: B+ --
This is one of the few films taken from an Elmore Leonard novel that should please the author's readers.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Elmore Leonard supplied the novel on which John Frankenheimer based this film, which stars Roy Scheider as affluent businessman Harry Mitchell. A middle-aged Korean War veteran whose metallurgical company has recently landed a hefty government contract, Harry is content with the world. Then, one day, three blackmailers, led by the sleazy Alan Raimy (John Glover), appear with a videotape of Harry making love to his topless-dancer girlfriend, which they threaten to send to his politically aspiring wife, Barbara (Ann-Margret), unless he forks over $110,000. Harry refuses to pay, deciding to solve the problem by telling all to his wife. After his confession, she tells him she suspected as much and even wonders why he bothered telling her. Raimy next moves on to plan B: He shows Harry a video of his girlfriend being murdered with his own gun. Although shaken, Harry still refuses to pay, deciding this time to formulate a plan to provide a much-needed education for his tormentors. An entertaining and amazingly sleazy revenge thriller raised a few notches above the norm by Leonard's patented colorfully terse dialogue and complex characters, 52 PICK-UP features a wildly over-the-top performance by Clarence Williams III that nearly obscures John Glover's brilliantly perverse villain and the solid work of Scheider. Those who may be offended by the film's high female-abuse quotient have been warned.