52 Pick Up details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Vanity, Roy Scheider, John Glover, Ann-Margret |
| Director: | John Frankenheimer |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure, Thriller - Mystery |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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52 Pick Up |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 44 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 04 Oct 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Good, Gitty Elmore Leonard Adaptation.
By Andrew Billington from Newcastle-u-lyme , 02 Apr 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
This film bucks the trend. The major pattern of putting Elmore Leonard's books on film is that the better the book, the worse the film adaptation - even if Leonard has hand a hand in writing the screenplay. Happily this doesn't follow that pattern. It has a classic gritty and grimy mise-en-scene, character driven action - lowlifes, pimps, prostitutes and killers - and assured direction from John Frankenheimer.
Roy Scheider (JAWS,MARATHON MAN, KLUTE) is a blackmailed businessman who fights back against the lowest of LA's underbelly - I won't reveal the plot but it has sex, murder, violence and hardboiled dialogue.
It ranks with JACKIE BROWN and GET SHORTY as the best of Elmore Leonard on film.
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(2)Who'da thunk it!
By Mike Upton from Stevenage , 04 Apr 2006Elmore Leonard normally gets a bum deal, second only to Stephen King when it comes to adaps!
This though surprised even me, if you can get past the names on the box and just watch it this is better than any number of high profile,high budget, Hollywood butcherings.
Taut, involved, strong character acting, and you even find yourself caring for the main characters by the time the titles roll.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good, Gitty Elmore Leonard Adaptation.
By Andrew Billington from Newcastle-u-lyme , 02 Apr 2005This film bucks the trend. The major pattern of putting Elmore Leonard's books on film is that the better the book, the worse the film adaptation - even if Leonard has hand a hand in writing the screenplay. Happily this doesn't follow that pattern. It has a classic gritty and grimy mise-en-scene, character driven action - lowlifes, pimps, prostitutes and killers - and assured direction from John Frankenheimer.
Roy Scheider (JAWS,MARATHON MAN, KLUTE) is a blackmailed businessman who fights back against the lowest of LA's underbelly - I won't reveal the plot but it has sex, murder, violence and hardboiled dialogue.
It ranks with JACKIE BROWN and GET SHORTY as the best of Elmore Leonard on film.
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