52 Pick-Up is a movie directed by John Frankenheimer in 1986 and based on the book 52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard, first published in 1974. The movie features Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman, and others.
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Storyline
Harry Mitchell is a successful businessman with mechanical aptitude living in the suburbs of Los Angeles whose wife Barbara is running for city council. Harry is confronted by three hooded blackmailers who demand $105,000 per year for a videotape of him and the mistress, Cini, with whom he has been having an affair.
Movie vs Book
Year
1986
Minutes
110
Movie Rate
6.40
Source: IMDb
Year
1974
Pages
212
Book Rate
7.88
S: Goodreads
Book
52 Pickup
Original title: Fifty-Two Pickup
Author: Elmore Leonard
Country: USA
First published in: 1974
Length: 212 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by J. Lee Thompson
User polls & recommendations
“The purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because when you've read the book you're just ticking off boxes.”
ZACK SNYDER (Filmmaker)
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