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52 Pick-Up is a 1986 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, and Vanity. It is based on Elmore Leonard's 1974 novel 52 Pickup and is the second adaptation of it after The Ambassador (1984).
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There are trashy exploitation films and there are trashy exploitation films well done. Difference between the two might be seen if someone watches *52 Pick-Up*, 1986 thriller directed by John Frankenheimer and example of the latter. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Elmore Leonard which two years earlier had been very loosely adapted by The Cannon Group into *The Ambassador*, political thriller set in Isra…More
