The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 14, 1986 - Page 9
'52'
picks
up
where
Hitch
left off
By Eileen Kahn
The term "52 Pickup" is a bad
card trick, a fifty-two thousand
)lollar blackmail pick up, and the
hame of Roy Scheider's new
'movie. 52 Pickup is a film ada -
ptation of Elmore Leonard's
suspense novel of the same name.
:Leonard is half of the sceen-writing
team for 52 Pickup-which guar -
antees a disturbing twist to the
-suspense film formula.
52 Pickup is concerned with
:Harry "Mitch" Mitchell (Roy
Scheider), a successful inventor and
,industrialist. The first five minutes
,of the film deftly characterizes his
long marriage with Barbara (Ann-
eR e
_n 1n
Margaret), an aspiring council -
woman. The two glance lovingly,
shyly it each other, but there is a
physical and emotional distance
between them. It comes as no
surprise to learn that Mitch has had
an extra-martial affair. Upon visi -
ting his lover, Cini (Kelly Prest -
on), to end the affair, Mitch is
confronted by three masked men and
their video tapes of Mitch and Cini.
Mitch refuses to pay the blac -
kmailers. The three men contact
Mitch again with a video tape of
Cimi's murder committed with
Mitch's stolen gun. Because the
evidence against himself is so
strong and because Barbara's pol -
itical career is reaching a peak,
Mitch decides not to go to the
police. So begins a story of male
gs to
vendetta. Mitch gradually unmasks
his blackmailers. He makes the
assassin of the group (Clarence
Williams III), and the gay "talent
scout" (Robert Trebor) each in turn
feel cut out of the deal by Alan.
Mitch destroys the three with
their own greed, but his triumph is
very expensive. As the stakes grow
higher, Alan kidnaps, drugs and
rapes Barbara. At the climax of the
movie, Mitch smiles as the last
blackmailer, fatally trapped by one
of his inventions, dies in an
explosion. In the light of the
flames, Mitch lets Barbara, drugged
and beaten, slip to the ground
unnoticed. There was little applause
in the audience to accompany
Mitch's "triumph." As in Leo -
nard's novels, there are no heroes
here. To defeat the blackmailers
Mitch must decend to their world of
exploitation. Alan is a sexually-
perverted videophyle and as the
audience views his camerawork, we
become exploiters as well.
As the blackmailers' plot
disintigrates due to Mitch's inte -
rference, the audience can let the
women in the film fall away
unnoticed. But director, John Fran -
kenheimer, is brutal: Cini dies
before our eyes, and
her "exotic dancer" friend Doreen
(Vanity), is almaost suffocated by
one of the blackmailers with a teddy
bear. Frankenheimer presents a
strong and finely paced film. He
illicts a good performance from
Scheider, and brilliant charact -
erizations from Glover, Williams,
and Trebor, the blackmailers. Ann-
Margaret is striking in the small
role of Scheider's suffering wife.
Frankenheimer contributes to the
suspense film genre in the tradition
of Hitchcock. A man in peril must
ultimately face himself, and it is a
disturbing view.
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Tonight at 8:00, East Quad's
Halfway Inn will host an evening
of music and poetry readings to
raise money for the Jazz For Life
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"Hey man, whatever happened to
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"Dig it man, I heard the dude
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"No shit!"
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Horses and Trees , a considerable
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Baker and his friends, including
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shouldn't be short changed because
it's good. But perhaps I expected
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