52 Pick-Up (1986)
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Genres - Romance, Drama, Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller |
Release Date - Nov 7, 1986 (USA) |
Run Time - 114 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand a huge amount of hush money, but Mitchell calls their bluff, going so far as to tell his politicially ambitious wife Barbara (Ann-Margret) about the affair. But the extortionists haven't even gotten started yet. Tying Mitchell to a chair, they force him to watch a tape of Cini being horribly murdered-with the evidence arranged so that Mitchell will be accused of the crime. But Mitchell remains firm in his refusal to pay up, whereupon he mounts a "fight fire with fire" plan all his own. 52 Pick Up was based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, which was previously filmed in 1984 as The Ambassador.
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extramarital-affair, ambition, blackmail, mistress, pornography, veteran [military]