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Hugo HaasPhotographie:
Paul IvanoActeurs·trices:
Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Murvyn Vye, Howland Chamberlain, Art Lewis, Allan Nixon, Bernard Gorcey, Jo-Carroll DennisonRésumés(1)
Pickup was the first self-financed directorial effort by the redoubtable Hugo Haas. The film falls neatly into the pattern followed by virtually all future Haas extravaganzas: A romantic triangle involving a susceptible middle-aged man, a scheming blonde wench, and a handsome hunk. Haas himself plays railroad dispatcher Jan Horak, who succumbs to the charms of zaftig doxy Betty (Beverly Michaels). Upon hearing that Horak has a few thousand dollars salted away, Betty inveigles him into marriage. Soon bored by her new husband, Betty inaugurates an affair with Horak's studdish assistant Steve (Allan Nixon). Because Horak is going deaf, Betty and Steve freely discusses their plans to bump off the old man and abscond with his dough. But Horak isn't quite as hearing-impaired as they think he is. (texte officiel du distributeur)
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I think this story shouldn't have a happy end, certainly not like this, and it should end if not directly tragically, at least much more dramatically. It’s too bad, because otherwise it's a very good spectacle that really gives the impression in a few scenes that it could have been even more noir. Hugo Haas as both director and actor and the equally magically treacherous Beverly Michaels surely had what it takes for that.
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Haas' American version of Pickup is similarly interesting to Lamač's English version of It Happened One Sunday. Both of them brought themes to emigration from their homeland, which they had not participated in themselves in Czechoslovakia, but of course, they understood the substances very well.
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