Pickup on South Street (1953)

EnglishFilm195380 minThriller, Crime★ 7.4/10

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.

Directed by

Samuel Fuller

Starring

Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter

Music

Leigh Harline

Released

1953-05-27

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