52 PickUp

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52 PickUp ★★½ 1986 (R)

After a fling, a wealthy industrialist is blackmailed by a trio of repulsive criminals and determines to save himself. First he becomes deeply caught in their web of murder. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel with lots of gruesome violence and good per formances. 111m/C VHS . Roy Scheider, AnnMargret, Vanity, John Glover, Doug McClure, Clarence Williams III, Kelly Preston, Robert Trebor, Lonny (Lonnie) Chapman; D: John Frankenheimer; W: John Steppling, Elmore Leonard; M: Gary Chang.