Pickup on South Street1953
How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
Director
Screenplay
Samuel Fuller
Actors
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone, Heinie Conklin, John Gallaudet, Alan Reed, Roger Moore, George E. Stone
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 80 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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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Ratings
7.4tmdb
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