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Pickup on South Street
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.
1953 · Directed by Samuel Fuller · 80 min · Thriller · Crime · 20 frames
Tagline
How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
Crew
- Screenplay: Samuel Fuller
- Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
- Edited by: Nick DeMaggio
- Music: Leigh Harline
- Produced by: Jules Schermer
Cast
- Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy
- Jean Peters as Candy
- Thelma Ritter as Moe Williams
- Murvyn Vye as Captain Dan Tiger
- Richard Kiley as Joey
- Willis Bouchey as Zara
- Milburn Stone as Detective Winoki
- Parley Baer as Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)
- Chet Brandenburg as Fight Spectator (uncredited)
- Frank Kumagai as Lum (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $780,000
- Themes: pickpocket, cold war, film noir, black and white
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