52 Pick-Up

About 52 Pick-Up

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.

52 Pick-Up is a 1986 crime thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer. Its themes are blackmail, porn actor, murder, and infidelity.

Roy Scheider appears as Harry Mitchell, Ann-Margret as Barbara Mitchell, Vanity as Doreen, and John Glover as Alan Raimy. Released in November 1986, it runs 110 minutes.

The screenplay is by Elmore Leonard and John Steppling. The story is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

Gone Baby Gone, Nightmare Alley, and The Long Goodbye make useful companions to 52 Pick-Up, all filed under neo-noir. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 161 votes and it carries a R rating.