Amber Lynn Movies
Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand a huge amount of hush money, but Mitchell calls their bluff, going so far as to tell his politicially ambitious wife Barbara (Ann-Margret) about the affair. But the extortionists haven't even gotten started yet. Tying Mitchell to a chair, they force him to watch a tape of Cini being horribly murdered-with the evidence arranged so that Mitchell will be accused of the crime. But Mitchell remains firm in his refusal to pay up, whereupon he mounts a "fight fire with fire" plan all his own. 52 Pick Up was based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, which was previously filmed in 1984 as The Ambassador. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, (more)
When a prominent plastic surgeon loses his lovely wife in a particularly grisly manner, his grief is such that he soon undergoes a series of insane experiments designed to repair and reassemble her on the operating table and make her live again -- provided he can procure an assortment of substitute parts from unwilling female donors. With the aid of his slavering hunchbacked assistant, the deranged doc hypnotizes young women and lures them back to his lab, where they soon go under the knife. A cheap and lurid gorefest in the mode of Herschel Gordon Lewis (who actually appears in a guest wraparound on the long-defunct United Video release), the premise is played for sick laughs, which only seem to accentuate the film's overall sleaziness. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
