Pickup is a 1951 American low-budget film noir starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain.

Haas, a refugee from German-occupied Europe, went on to make a series of gloomy noirs about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales.

Czech-American Jan "Hunky" Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher who mans isolated Tank Stop 47, several miles out of town, by himself.

When that fails, Betty tries to persuade Steve to shove her husband off a cliff during a rail inspection, falsely claiming that Hunky has beaten her, but he cannot bring himself to commit murder.

[4] More recently Filmfanatic.org called it "a tawdry, low-budget camp classic", criticising predictable elements but praising the dialog and some unexpected plot twists.