🎬 Thriller, Crime

Pickup on South Street

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

⭐ 7.4/10 1953 1h 20m Dir. Samuel Fuller

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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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7.4/10 322 votes

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Year
1953
Runtime
1h 20m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 7.4/10
Votes
322
Genre
Thriller, Crime
Director
Language
EN
Budget
$0.8M

Cast

🎭 Thriller 🎭 Crime 🎬 Samuel Fuller 👤 Richard Widmark 👤 Jean Peters 👤 Thelma Ritter
pickpocket cold war film noir black and white

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Pickup on South Street has a runtime of 1h 20m (1 hour and 20 minutes).
Pickup on South Street was directed by Samuel Fuller and released in 1953.
Pickup on South Street is a Thriller, Crime film (1953).
The cast of Pickup on South Street includes Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley.
Pickup on South Street has a TMDB rating of 7.4/10 based on 322 votes.

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