Blu-ray Review 52 Pick-Up (Re-release) – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

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After a successful run in the 1960’s – including classics like The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and The Train (1965) – and running hot and cold during the 1970’s, John Frankenheimer entered the 1980’s on a career ebb tide. Problems with alcoholism plagued his personal life – and also seeped into his professional life, with the cult ecological horror film Prophecy (1979) being seen as a low point personally and below his usual high standards – and led him to seek treatment following production of The Challenge (1982). However, Cannon Films – and maverick Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus – saw some value in Frankenheimer and brought him into the fold for two movies; the first was an adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Holcroft Covenant (1985), the second was an adaptation...

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