La racoleuse

Original title: Pickup

1951
Approved
1h 18m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Beverly Michaels and Allan Nixon in La racoleuse (1951)

Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike up this flick.

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A lonely widower marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.A lonely widower marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.A lonely widower marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

962

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

Professor
(as Howland Chamberlin)

Jo-Carroll Dennison

Irma

Mark Lowell

Waiter

Marjorie Beckett

Secretary

Art Lewis

Driver

Jack Daley

Company Doctor
(as Jack Daly)

Bernard Gorcey

Murvyn Vye

Director
- Hugo Haas
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Trivia
A "Hunky" was a nickname for Hungarian people used at the time of this film. Mostly it was used in a derogatory manner.

Goofs
(at around 53 mins) Steve asks Jan (still believing Jan cannot hear) if he wants to play gin rummy, sits down at the table, and puts the deck of cards in front of Jan. Jan cuts the deck, so Steve takes the cards back to deal, but he deals too many cards. (In gin rummy, each player is supposed to be dealt 10 cards with the 21st card being placed face-up to begin play.) Steve deals 13 cards to Jan and 12 to himself, telling Jan to "throw first"; this may be a local variant of the game instead of beginning with a face-up card; however, the excess cards dealt is an error.

Quotes
Steve: Say, weren't you running around with Skippy Fraser about a year ago?
Betty: ... That phony! He was no good. What'd he tell you?
Steve: All kinds of things.
Betty: Good or bad?
Steve: That depends. I liked them!
Betty: You guys tell each other everything, eh?
Steve: You girls don't?

Connections
Referenced in Dungeon Girl (2008)

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Featured review

5/10

Good Try, But Tramp Steamer Falls Short - Pickup

This Hugo Haas vehicle about a middle-aged railroad worker and a young woman who is attractive on the outside, but pure lowlife on the inside has elements of several better films, like The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and even Blue Angel. But this film never achieves anywhere near the status of those classics. I loved Beverly Michaels as the heavy, and it is a shame she did not make more significant films. But Hugo Haas was never more than a minor B actor, although he does a good job in this role. The film is intriguing in some spots and lifeless in others, so it gets the rating that can't make up its mind; a five.