# Highway Pickup

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Chair de poule
| image          = Chair de poule film poster.jpg
| caption        = French theatrical release poster
| director       = [Julien Duvivier](/source/Julien_Duvivier)
| producer       = [Raymond Hakim](/source/Raymond_Hakim)<br />[Robert Hakim](/source/Robert_Hakim)
| screenplay     = Julien Duvivier<br />[René Barjavel](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Barjavel)
| based_on       = {{based on|the novel ''Come Easy, Go Easy''|[James Hadley Chase](/source/James_Hadley_Chase)}}
| starring       = [Robert Hossein](/source/Robert_Hossein)<br />[Catherine Rouvel](/source/Catherine_Rouvel)<br />[Jean Sorel](/source/Jean_Sorel)<br />[Georges Wilson](/source/Georges_Wilson)
| music          = [Georges Delerue](/source/Georges_Delerue)
| cinematography = [Léonce-Henri Burel](/source/L%C3%A9once-Henri_Burel)
| editing        = [Suzanne de Troeye](/source/Suzanne_de_Troeye)
| distributor    = [Pathé](/source/Path%C3%A9)
| studio         = 
| released       = {{Film date|1963|11|13|df=y}} (France)
| runtime        = 107 minutes
| country        = France
| language       = French
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}
'''''Chair de poule''''' ([French](/source/French_language) for "goosebumps") is a 1963 French [crime film](/source/crime_film) directed by [Julien Duvivier](/source/Julien_Duvivier) and starring [Robert Hossein](/source/Robert_Hossein), [Catherine Rouvel](/source/Catherine_Rouvel), [Jean Sorel](/source/Jean_Sorel) and [Georges Wilson](/source/Georges_Wilson). The screenplay is based on the 1960 novel ''Come Easy, Go Easy'' by [James Hadley Chase](/source/James_Hadley_Chase), which took several plot elements from the 1934 novel ''[The Postman Always Rings Twice](/source/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice_(novel))'' by [James M Cain](/source/James_M_Cain). The film was released in the United States as '''''Highway Pickup'''''.

==Plot==
In Paris, Daniel and Paul work installing safes by day and robbing them by night. When a raid goes wrong and a man is killed, Daniel is shot down by the police and jailed. He escapes and, heading south, is given a job and a room by Thomas, who runs an isolated café and garage with his much younger wife Maria. She scorns the drifter her husband has hired until, by chance, she sees an old newspaper that reports his escape. She tells Daniel she will turn him in unless he opens the safe where Thomas keeps his cash.

When Thomas is out one night, Daniel starts work; but Thomas returns early and after an argument Maria shoots him dead. Once Daniel has buried the body, the two try to run the place as before, except that they now share a bed. After Daniel rings Paris to tell Paul where he is, Paul joins them and Maria switches her attentions to him, thinking he will be easier to deal with if he opens the safe that Daniel refuses to touch again. Intruders then wound Daniel so that he is immobilised and, while Maria is out, Paul opens the safe. But she returns early and after an argument he shoots her dead. Leaving Daniel to his fate, he is making off with the money when he is caught at a police roadblock and shot dead.

==Cast==
* [Robert Hossein](/source/Robert_Hossein) as Daniel Boisset 
* [Catherine Rouvel](/source/Catherine_Rouvel) as Maria 
* [Jean Sorel](/source/Jean_Sorel) as Paul Genest 
* [Georges Wilson](/source/Georges_Wilson) as Thomas
* [Lucien Raimbourg](/source/Lucien_Raimbourg) as Roux 
* [Nicole Berger](/source/Nicole_Berger) as Simone 
* [Jacques Bertrand](/source/Jacques_Bertrand) as Marc 
* [Jean-Jacques Delbo](/source/Jean-Jacques_Delbo) as Joubert 
* [Sophie Grimaldi](/source/Sophie_Grimaldi) as Starlet
* [Armand Mestral](/source/Armand_Mestral) as Corenne 
* [Jean Lefebvre](/source/Jean_Lefebvre) as Priest
* [Robert Dalban](/source/Robert_Dalban) as Brigadier

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0056921}}
* [http://www.cinema-francais.fr/les_films/films_d/films_duvivier_julien/chair_de_poule.htm  ''Chair de poule'' at “Cinema-francais“] (French)

{{Julien Duvivier}}
{{René Barjavel}}
{{The Postman Always Rings Twice}}
Category:1963 films
Category:1963 crime films
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Films based on works by James Hadley Chase
Category:Films set in Paris
Category:French crime films
Category:Films directed by Julien Duvivier
Category:1963 French-language films
Category:Films scored by Georges Delerue
Category:Films based on British novels
Category:Films with screenplays by René Barjavel
Category:1963 French films

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