---
title: 'Pickup (1951)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Hugo Haas'
released: '1951-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 78
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/pickup-1951'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043919/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Pickup (1951)

1951 · 78 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Pickup is a 1951 American film noir released by Columbia Pictures and starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Written and directed by Haas, a Czech actor and filmmaker, it was his American debut behind the camera and the first of a series of gloomy films about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Hugo Haas](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-haas)
- **Screenplay:** [Hugo Haas](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-haas), [Arnold Lippschitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnold-lippschitz)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Harold Byrns](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-byrns)
- **Director of Photography:** [Paul Ivano](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-ivano)
- **Editor:** [Wolfgang Loe Bagier](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-loe-bagier)

## Cast

- [Jo-Carroll Dennison](https://cinepixo.com/people/jo-carroll-dennison)
- [Beverly Michaels](https://cinepixo.com/people/beverly-michaels)
- [Howland Chamberlain](https://cinepixo.com/people/howland-chamberlain)
- [Murvyn Vye](https://cinepixo.com/people/murvyn-vye)
- [Bernard Gorcey](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-gorcey)
- [Hugo Haas](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-haas)
- [Allan Nixon](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-nixon)

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