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Pickup on South Street is a 1953 American spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter. [5] Widmark plays a pickpocket who unwittingly steals a covert microfilm sought by foreign agents.
Pickup on South Street: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye. A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
With its dazzling cast and writer-director Samuel Fuller’s signature hard-boiled repartee and raw energy, Pickup on South Street is a true film noir classic by one of America’s most passionate cinematic craftspeople.
Sep 10, 2012 · Monday 10 September 2012. Time Out says. A superb thriller dismissed by many as a McCarthyist tract on its first appearance. Nominally about the hunting of Commie spies,...
Pickup on South Street. Summaries. A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. On a crowded subway, Skip McCoy picks the purse of Candy.
Dec 10, 2021 · Looking back at Samuel Fuller’s 1953 film Pickup on South Street, which has the best NYC-centric opening sequence in film history.
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy (Jean Peters) and steals her wallet. Unaware ...
Summary: A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. Directed by: Samuel Fuller. Actors: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter. Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox. Release Date: 1 August 1953 (Japan) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1.
May 25, 2015 · The world of Pickup on South Street is familiar to admirers of Fuller’s other films, abounding in a lurid cavalcade of unforgettable oddballs who collectively show America to be a place of cracked schemers and dreamers working for their own interests.
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
