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Highway Pick-Up

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Original title

Chair de poule

Year

1963

Running time

107 min.

Country

France

Director

Julien Duvivier

Screenwriter

Julien Duvivier, René Barjavel. Novel: James Hadley Chase

Cast

Music

Georges Delerue

Cinematography

Léonce-Henri Burel (B&W)

Producer

Co-production France-Italy;

Pans-Interopa, Société Nouvelle Pathé

Genre

Film noir. Drama | Crime. French Polar

Movie Groups

James Hadley Chase Adaptations

Synopsis

Daniel Boisett (Robert Hossein) and his friend Paul Genest (Jean Sorel) are disturbed by the home owner during an attempted safe-cracking. In the ensuing mêlée, Paul accidentally kills the home owner and manages to escape but Daniel is shot and wounded by police and is promptly sentenced to a lengthy stint in prison. Fourteen months later Daniel manages to escape and by chance meets up with Thomas (Georges Wilson), who after the pair quickly become friends, offers him a job at the Mountain Relay Station he owns. Daniel adopts a new alias and accepts the offer, but once there he meets Thomas' sexy young gold-digging wife, Maria (Catherine Rouvel), and nothing will ever be the same from here on in...

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Highway Pick-Up

1963

Julien Duvivier

7.1

(229)