Pickup Alley (1957)
Directed by John Gilling
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller |
Release Date - Apr 2, 1957 (USA - Unknown), Aug 13, 1957 (USA) |
Run Time - 92 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Victor Mature stars in this European-based crime thriller. Mature is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation, following his quarry all over the Continent (with accompanying pretty pictures of Portugal, Spain, France etc.) The criminal mastermind (Trevor Howard) is something of a lunatic, who has already strangled Mature's sister to death just for the hell of it. Anita Ekberg plays Howard's luscious courier; as usual, her "acting" consists to breathing heavily in a low-cut dress. The title Pickup Alley was the invention of Columbia's New York office: The film's original British title was Interpol.
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agent [representative], bad-guy, chase, criminal, death, drug-ring, drugs, espionage, family-member, federal-agent, good-guy, international, Interpol (International Police), kingpin, pursuit, revenge, sister, smuggling, syndicate, tracking [following], trail [path], traveling