Word: haase
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pickup. Making his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious thriller about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME, Aug. 27).
Pickup. Making his debut as a Hollywood moviemaker, Czech-born Hugo Haas directs and stars in a tense, unpretentious thriller about a middle-aged railroad watchman and the floozy he marries (TIME, Aug. 27).
The chance comes when Haas goes stone deaf. While his pension is being arranged, the railroad sends a husky young replacement (Allan Nixon) to join him and his wife in the line shack. Haas suddenly regains his hearing in the shock of an automobile accident, but before he can tell...
Director Haas makes imaginative use of his camera and sound track to bring his story to life. And with Pickup's unromantic, middle-aged hero (a role cut to the measure of France's late Raimu), its sense of character, its tolerance of human frailty and its unglamorous...
Hugo Haas waited almost a decade before resuming the career of scripter-director-actor that won him a reputation in Europe before World War II. After fleeing Czechoslovakia (and later Paris) a jump ahead of the Germans, he made his way to the U.S. Between a wartime job as an...