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Pickup is a 1951 American low-budget film noir starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Written and directed by Haas, a Czech actor and filmmaker, it was his first American film behind the camera.
Pickup: Directed by Hugo Haas. With Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain. A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.
6 oct. 2022 · Pickup (1951) is often compared to the famous 1946 film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice, which was based on James M Cain's 1934 novel of the same name. However, Pickup was actually a ...
You get Hugo Haas’s Pickup. Lonely widower Jan Horak (Haas) falls for cheap floozy Betty (Beverly Michaels), and who could blame him? She marries him for his money, and he thinks they’re happy until he discovers how duplicitous she really is.
Synopsis. In a small desert town, a hobo, who is called the Professor because of his proclivity for poetry, visits his friend, Jan "Hunky" Horack, a middle-aged widower and railroad dispatcher who lives in a tiny house by the tracks. Jan confesses he is lonely as his dog recently was run over.
Overview. 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." Hugo Haas.
A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him. An older immigrant widower with a lonely, isolated life running a railroad water stop in the desert falls for a much younger beauty.
