The title had two meanings, one of which I think was that thing kids used to do. They hold a deck of cards and say, "You want to play 52 Pick-Up?" and you'd say okay, and they throw them on the floor and tell you to pick them up. If someone had a light 1952 truck, it could have had a triple meaning.
Violent psychopathic criminals including an amateur pornographer and a small pornographic business owner, devise an elaborate scheme which didn't really make sense to blackmail Roy Scheider. Some flaws in their plan were pointed out in the movie.
I think it was an '80's thing. The violence was overly sadistic. The movie was seedy and unpleasant. The Breaking Bad-like ending might have been good, but they took it too far to be plausible.
Roy Scheider as regular rich guy who's surprisingly good at fighting people. Private gun ownership isn't usually a factor in movies like this, not that it did him any good. With Clarence Williams III, Ann-Margret and I didn't recognize him, but Doug McClure was in a supporting role.
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