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52 Pick Up [1986]

Starring: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover
Director: John Frankenheimer
Format: PAL
Released: 04 Oct 2004
RRP: £12.99
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Leonard and Frankenheimer get down and dirty - By: Trevor Willsmer, 19 Mar 2006
52 Pick-Up was one of the few rays of light in the dark days when every screen adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel would go horribly wrong & when John Frankenheimer’s name on the credits wasn’t exactly a guarantee of quality any more, although it sank quickly due to a botched marketing campaign (the producers decided to play up the good reviews by touting it as ‘The best film this season from Cannon,’ which is a bit like boasting about having the least contagious form of VD). A riff on his earlier Western The Talll T, this sees businessman Roy Scheider set up by a trio of blackmailers who, not taking kindly to him confessing his affair to his wife rather than pay up, murder his girlfriend with his gun so as not to miss out on their payday, only for Scheider to turn them against each other. While it’s no Out of Sight, it’s an effectively seedy L.A. thriller with a couple of outstanding supporting turns by John Glover & a seriously mucked-up & dangerous Clarence Williams III.

No extras at alll as per most of MGM/UA's R2 discs, but it does have a decent 1.85:1 widescreen transfer.