The Girl on the Bridge (1951)

The Girl on the Bridge (1951) is a Hugo Haas single-mother blackmail and suicide kindly old lousy husband and younger showgirl domestic film noir drama, with Beverly Michaels, in the kindlier and more homely of the Haas Michaels collabs of the day.

It's not the only time Haas plays the gentle and elderly immigrant hooking up with a young American girl, show girl or sass girl, we certainly get soem single mom showgirl favours for old watchmaker dudes in this on the face of it and yet in the depths of it also, innocent hass-time fun.

Pickup (1951)

Pickup (1951) is a tragic Hugo Haas femme fatale on the make tale of weak and devious minor characters planning murder in a rural backwater, starring Beverly Michaels as a bored and ambitious scheming woman, who attempts in the style of The Postman Always Rings Twice, to kill an older man for his dough.

With its scuzzy setting, between the old railway shack where Hugo Haas' vulnerable old widower lives, the nearby fairground, and the rails themselves, it is a simple an exploitative tale, assuming the worst of the wicked female lead, and the worst of her husband, the sap, the mark in this matter, the man she marries for money.