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52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up (1986) is a Golan-Globus production of a John Frankenheimer thriller. That tells us a lot already. It was made by a former major director well past his prime, and had a relatively small budget at a notorious assembly line studio. (This film was one of 43 films churned out by Golan-Globus in 1986!)

Roy Scheider plays a former military officer and wealthy industrialist who owns a patent that gives him huge yearly royalties from the space program. His wife (Ann Margret) is a deputy district attorney who has just decided to run for city council. Scheider is a straight shooter for the most part, but has a critical chink in his armor. He has been seeing a stripper (Kelly Preston) and three evil underworld types filmed them together and decided to blackmail him. Instead of paying, he tells his wife. They haven't been sleeping together anyway, so he figures he doesn't have much to lose. The bad guys consider this the wrong answer, so they kill Kelly Preston and edit the film to frame Scheider for the murder. He feels like he can't go to the cops, so his only choice is to outwit the baddies. Fortunately for him, they are as stupid as they are nasty, and he manages to turn them against each other, but not before they kidnap and possibly rape Ann Margret.

I personally did not like the performances by Scheider and Ann Margret, but found it otherwise enjoyable with plenty of action, really evil villains, cameos from Ron Jeremy and various other porn stars, and excellent nudity.

• IMDb readers say 5.9.
• Vanity was nominated for a supporting actress Saturn.

This is a C+. Solid thriller.

The body count features breasts and buns from Kelly Preston, as well as breasts from Amber Lynn, Vanity, and several unknowns.

Kelly Preston

Vanity

Amber Lynn

Unknowns

Old Gringo

 

Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a school teacher and spinster who lives a stifling and boring life with her widowed mother in 1913. She wants to leave it all behind for adventure in Mexico as governess for a wealthy family. However, much to her surprise, she arrives to assume her new position and lands right in the middle of Pancho Villa's revolution where she is used by General Tomas Arroyo (Jimmy Smits) to gain access to the government-held mansion.

Meanwhile, the elderly American writer Ambrose Bierce (Gregory Peck) is also in the area. This world-weary author of tales such as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has come to Mexico to die. Together, the odd threesome must deal with the past, love, death and the ties that bind them together.