52 Pick-Up (1986)

A Los Angeles businessman being blackmailed over an affair chooses to string his extortionists along rather than go to the police, fearing scandal would derail his wife's council campaign.

This 1986 crime thriller from director John Frankenheimer follows Harry Mitchell, a prosperous Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is standing for city council. When three blackmailers present him with footage of his affair with a young mistress and demand $100,000, he fears going to the police would wreck her campaign, so he feigns cooperation while quietly plotting otherwise. Roy Scheider leads a cast that includes Ann-Margret, Vanity and John Glover in this tense tale of a man pushed to fight back.