52 Pick-Up (1986) Movie poster and book cover compared.

52 Pick-Up

John Frankenheimer, 1986

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52 Pickup
Elmore Leonard, 1974

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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RATING

6.4

/ 10

Movie Poster: 52 Pick-Up (John Frankenheimer, 1986)

7.8

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Book Cover: 52 Pickup (Elmore Leonard, 1974)

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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

Poster of 52 Pick-Up, the 1986 movie by John Frankenheimer

Year

1986

Minutes

110

Movie Rate

6.40

Source: IMDb

Cover of 52 Pickup, the 1974 book by Elmore Leonard

Year

1974

Pages

212

Book Rate

7.88

S: Goodreads

Book

52 Pickup

Original title: Fifty-Two Pickup

Country: USA

First published in: 1974

Length: 212 pages

Genre: Fiction

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Other screen adaptations of the book

Movie poster
The Ambassador (1984)
Movie by J. Lee Thompson

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Cover of 52 Pickup, the 1974 book by Elmore Leonard

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