Directed by:
Hugo HaasCinematography:
Paul IvanoCast:
Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Murvyn Vye, Howland Chamberlain, Art Lewis, Allan Nixon, Bernard Gorcey, Jo-Carroll DennisonPlots(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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Hugo Haas](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267998_878759.jpg)
Hugo Haas
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Skeleton on Horseback (1937)
Morality Above All Else (1937)
Long Live with Dearly Departed (1935)
![Beverly Michaels](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/599/161599214_0480df.jpg)
Beverly Michaels
USA
Best movies:
Three Little Words (1950)
Pickup (1951)
East Side, West Side (1949)
![Murvyn Vye](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/843/159843096_aea132.jpg)
Murvyn Vye
USA
Best movies:
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup (1951)
Golden Earrings (1947)
![Howland Chamberlain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/894/159894740_0df986.gif)
Howland Chamberlain
USA
Best movies:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Art Lewis
USA
Best movies:
Pickup (1951)
The Joker Is Wild (1957)
The Rack (1956)
Allan Nixon
USA
Best movies:
Pickup (1951)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Buccaneer (1958)
Bernard Gorcey
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Set-Up (1949)
Pickup (1951)
Jo-Carroll Dennison
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Pickup (1951)