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Pickup Alley: Directed by John Gilling. With Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano. International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Gilling
- 1957-08-13
Interpol (USA title: Pickup Alley; also known as International Police) is a 1957 British-American CinemaScope crime film noir directed by John Gilling and starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano and Sidney James.
Sep 4, 2023 · It concerns an Interpol effort to stamp out a major drug-smuggling cartel in numerous countries. Mature plays an American narcotics officer, with Howard as a drug baron. In the United States, the...
- 91 min
- 4.3K
- Hollywood Classic Movies
Pickup Alley (1957) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Mar 21, 2008 · Pickup Alley "This is a picture about DOPE!," proclaimed the posters for Pickup Alley (1957), an international crime drama starring Victor Mature as an American FBI agent on the trail of the shadowy head of a European drug smuggling operation flooding New York with heroine.
A law-and-order thriller focusing on the international narcotics trade, Interpol (aka Pickup Alley) harks back to such dire warnings as Port of New York and To The Ends of the Earth.
John Gilling’s Pickup Alley starts out as a gritty, desperate, dirty London noir but eventually shifts into a continental crime adventure chasing through Rome, Athens, Lisbon, and the Côte d’Azur.
