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      Pickup Alley

      1957 1h 32m Action List
      Reviews 17% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score After his sister is murdered while trying to pass on information about a drug dealer, FBI agent Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature) dedicates himself to tracking down international drug kingpin Frank McNally (Trevor Howard). Traveling to London on a lead, Charles learns that McNally is difficult to identify, as he changes his appearance regularly. Charles finds McNally's courier, Gina (Anita Ekberg), and places her in danger by following her across Europe, hoping that she'll lead him to McNally. Read More Read Less

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      william k After an over-heated and irritating opening this thriller hardly ever slows down its fast-action, Europe-wide criminal pursue to establish any characters or give enough room to explain its narrative; Trevor Howard, however, obviously enjoys his role as the diabolical villain. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Victor Mature plays a cop who hunts down a dope smuggling ring. The film wants to be a hard hitting expose about the drug underworld, but the film comes off as very dated and corny. It doesn't help either to have the wooden Mature in the lead, nor does it lend credibility to have the suave Trevor Howard as the evil dope smuggler. However, in the film's favor, Anita Ekberg, is quite good in what is probably the only non-Fellini role I've seen her in, and director John Gilling, who I've never really heard of before, brings a fair amount of style and atmosphere to what is a pretty corny script that desperately wants to be something as tough and gritty as "The French Connection," which by the way I was thinking there was going to be a moment where I could say that "The French Connection" ripped off this film during the scene where they strip a car and say they've looked everywhere but the rocker panels because there is a moment in this film when someone says just about the same thing when they are searching a ship, except in this film they don't look in the spot mentioned. But I digress. Overall, despite another stiff performance by the rarely good Mature, this film manages to be entertaining if not particularly credible. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, who's a few years later go on to produce the James Bond franchise and change the face of action films forever. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Clunky and unbelievable B-film crime thriller. Rated: C Jul 1, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis After his sister is murdered while trying to pass on information about a drug dealer, FBI agent Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature) dedicates himself to tracking down international drug kingpin Frank McNally (Trevor Howard). Traveling to London on a lead, Charles learns that McNally is difficult to identify, as he changes his appearance regularly. Charles finds McNally's courier, Gina (Anita Ekberg), and places her in danger by following her across Europe, hoping that she'll lead him to McNally.
      Director
      John Gilling
      Production Co
      Warwick Film Productions
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Apr 13, 2011
      Runtime
      1h 32m