The Pick-Up Blu-ray marks the worldwide Blu-ray premiere of a long-lost 1969 crime shocker from exploitation legends Lee Frost and Wes Bishop, restored and presented uncut for the first time ever. Though Frost and Bishop were responsible for notorious grindhouse staples like House on Bare Mountain, Love Camp 7, The Thing with Two Heads, and Race with the Devil, this brutal roughie was thought lost for decades until the discovery of its original camera negative in a Paris vault.
 
When two bagmen for the Los Angeles syndicate are robbed of one million dollars in Las Vegas mob money by a seductive pair of con artists, the fallout ignites a spiral of sexual obsession, carnal violence, and merciless revenge. What begins as a slick crime setup quickly descends into one of the rawest and most confrontational entries in American exploitation cinema, blending noir cynicism with the abrasive intensity of the roughie cycle.
 
Starring Lynn Harris, sexploitation icon David F. Friedman, legendary producer Bob Cresse, and cult folk singer Jim Sullivan, The Pick-Up stands as a savage time capsule of late-1960s underground filmmaking. Newly scanned in 4K from the original negative, this Severin Films release finally restores one of the era’s most elusive exploitation titles to its full, uncompromising form.
 
directed by: lee frost
starring: wes bishop, lynn harris, david f. friedman, bob cresse, jim sullivan
1968 / 91 min / 1.85:1 / english mono