Paris Pick-Up

Region B

Recently released ex-convict Robert Herbin (Robert Hossein, Rififi) meets Marthe (Lea Massari, L’Avventura), a beautiful Italian woman and her daughter. They share some flirtatious glances and then she invites him back to her home where they discover her husband’s dead body. Unable to bear witness to a crime due to his parole Robert flees. Guilty about her situation Robert stays close by where he discovers the body has inexplicably disappeared. With its tender depiction of character and relationships director Marcel Bluwal engineers gripping tension with the expertise of Hitchcock or Clouzot. Adapted from the novel by celebrated crime writer Frédéric Dard (Back to the Wall), Paris Pick-Up is released for the first time outside of France. 

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• 2K restoration by Gaumont
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• New commentary by Tim Lucas (2025)
• Archival interview with director Marcel Bluwal (2015, 25 mins)
• Filming of Paris Pick-up (1962, 4 mins)
• Archival interview with Robert Hossein and writer Frédéric Dard (1963, 14 mins)
• Leclerc Investigates: The Grey Jackets - TV crime serial directed by Marcel Bluwal  (1962, 26 mins)
• Newly improved English subtitle translation