Pickup (1951)

PICKUP  (1951)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Hugo Haas
    Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels,
    Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain
Hugo Haas works what was apparently a favorite theme: the middle-aged man who's seduced and undone by the allure of a much younger woman. Haas plays a Czech immigrant who works for the railroad at a switching station out in the middle of nowhere. Beverly Michaels plays the femme fatale with bad-girl aplomb and eyes that don't quite line up. He meets her on one of his rare trips into town, after trying and failing to bargain down the price on a cute little puppy. Too bad. He should've just bought the puppy.