Pickup on South Street (1953)

1953 · Feature film · 94 min · dir. Samuel Fuller

How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!

• Thriller
• Crime

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Synopsis

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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Details

Director

Samuel Fuller

Writer

Samuel Fuller

Composer

Leigh Harline

Cinematography

Joseph MacDonald

Studio

20th Century Fox

Released

1953-05-27

Running time

94 minutes

Cast & crew

• Samuel Fuller Director
• Richard Widmark
• Jean Peters
• Thelma Ritter
• Murvyn Vye
• Richard Kiley
• Willis Bouchey
• Milburn Stone
• Parley Baer

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