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Film · 1953
Pickup on South Street
1h 20mNRDirected by Samuel Fuller
- Thriller
- Crime
How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
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Cast
Richard WidmarkSkip McCoy
Jean PetersCandy
Thelma RitterMoe Williams
Murvyn VyeCaptain Dan Tiger
Richard KileyJoey
Willis BoucheyZara
Milburn StoneDetective Winoki
Parley BaerHeadquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)
Chet BrandenburgFight Spectator (uncredited)- Frank KumagaiLum (uncredited)
Virginia CarrollNurse (uncredited)
Harry CarterDetective Dietrich (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Samuel Fuller
- Writer
- Samuel Fuller
- Story
- Dwight Taylor
- Music
- Leigh Harline
- Cinematography
- Joseph MacDonald
- Editor
- Nick DeMaggio
- Producer
- Jules Schermer
- Release
- May 27, 1953
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- NR
- Language
- English
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- TMDB score
- 7.4 / 10 from 341 votes
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