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Pickup is a film of genre Drama directed by Hugo Haas released in USA on 21 july 1951 with Hugo Haas
Pickup (1951)
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Add to a movie listPickup is a 1951 American film noir written and directed by Czech actor and filmmaker Hugo Haas. It was the first American film by Haas, a refugee from Nazi Europe, who went on to make a series of gloomy noirs about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales. Haas also starred in the film, alongside Beverly Michaels and Allan Nixon.
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Low-budget, and showing it, Pickup contains a plot that is similar to that of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), but according to Larry Langman "a poor man's version".Actors
Hugo Haas
(Jan 'Hunky' Horak)
Beverly Michaels
(Betty Horak)
Murvyn Vye
Howland Chamberlain
('The Professor', tramp)
Bernard Gorcey
(Peddler with Dog)
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Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Al Hill
Rating67%
A kindly elderly watchmaker, who lost his own family in the holocaust, sees a beautiful young blonde on a bridge and prevents her from committing suicide. They marry and live happily until a man from her past attempts to blackmail her.
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, 1h19Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar, Emmett Lynn, Bruno VeSota, George Keymas
Rating58%
Middle-aged Marko (Haas) is searching for a lost gold mine for nearly 20 years. To share expenses for a prospecting expedition he teams up with bright young Ray Brighton (Agar). When they find the mine Marko decides he doesn't want to share with his partner and plans to murder him. He figures that after the two of them spend the winter together with Marko's trashy young wife (Moore) in a shack far from civilization, he will sooner or later catch them in adultery, and he can use the "unwritten law" to kill Brighton and thus escape punishment from the law. But the plot backfires.
The Other Woman (1954)
, 1h21Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
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Hit and Run (1957)
Directed by Hugo Haas
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Actors Cleo Moore, Vince Edwards, Hugo Haas, Carl Milletaire, Julie Mitchum, John Zaremba
Rating62%
Gus Hilmer, a garage owner, falls in love with and marries a showgirl named Julie, who's many years younger than him, and this causes tension between Hilmer and Frankie, a young mechanic who he has befriended.
One Girl's Confession (1953)
, 1h14Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Burt Mustin, Russ Conway, Glenn Langan, Gayne Whitman
Rating63%
Mary Adams (Cleo Moore) is a waitress in a waterfront bar run by a man who had swindled her father years before. One night, she climbs in the man's bedroom window and steals $25,000 from under his pillow. The police arrive the next morning and, to escape pursuit and reprisal of the bar-owner, she confesses her crime. When The money is not recovered, Mary is sent to prison for five years, but earns early release for good behavior. While on parole, she gets another waterfront waitressing job. Dragomie Damitrof (Hugo Haas), the owner of this bar, is a foreign scoundrel father-figure type. Mary believes that she is being watched by the authorities still trying to recover the money, and is somewhat un-trusting of everyone.
The White Disease (1937)
, 1h46Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Václav Vydra, František Smolík, Ladislav Boháč, Jaroslav Průcha
Rating74%
Le maréchal Krieger, un terrible dictateur, attrape la peste blanche, une maladie contre laquelle seul le docteur Galén possède le remède pouvant amener à la guérison. Cependant, comme le docteur ne veut livrer son secret qu'en échange de la paix, le dictateur accède à sa demande et le fait venir chez lui. Galén est tué par la foule avide de guerre, mais, alors qu'il se sait perdu, le redoutable dictateur signe quand même l'armistice. Le docteur ayant heureusement partagé son savoir avec un médecin étranger, l'humanité sera sauvée.
Strange Fascination (1952)
, 1h20Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Mona Barrie, Rick Vallin, Karen Sharpe, Gayne Whitman
Rating60%
The life of Paul Marvan (Haas), a world-famous concert pianist, is ruined after his marriage to beautiful femme fatale Margo (Moore).
Lizzie (1957)
, 1h21Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondell, Hugo Haas, Ric Roman, Dorothy Arnold
Rating63%
Elizabeth has recurring headaches and is plagued with insomnia. She is receiving letters from a woman called Lizzie, but Elizabeth can't remember knowing anyone named Lizzie. When Elizabeth is under hypnosis, her psychiatrist, Dr. Wright, discovers Elizabeth has three personalities: The shy Elizabeth, the Mr. Hyde-like Lizzie, and the kind, well-adjusted Beth, the woman she always should have been. It is up to Dr. Wright to help Elizabeth to become Beth completely.
Born to Be Loved (1959)
, 1h22Directed by Hugo Haas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Jo Allen, Hugo Haas, Jacqueline Fontaine
Rating58%
, 1h28Directed by Hugo Haas, Otakar Vávra
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Hugo Haas, Antonie Nedošinská, Jiřina Štěpničková, Oldřich Nový, Růžena Šlemrová, Adina Mandlová
Rating64%