PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET

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• Release Year: 1953
• Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on a big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters), he finds a haul bigger than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, Right versus Red, and passion against self-preservation. With its dazzling cast and director Samuel Fuller's signature raw energy and hard-boiled repartee, Pickup On South Street is a true film noir by one of America's most passionate cinematic craftsmen.
• Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone, Parley Baer, George Berkeley, Chet Brandenburg, Virginia Carroll, Harry Carter, Heinie Conklin, Clancy Cooper, George Eldredge, John Gallaudet, Robert Haines, Frank Kumagai, Jay Loft-Lyn, King Mojave, Ray Montgomery, Roger Moore, Jerry O'Sullivan, Vic Perry, Stuart Randall, Alan Reed, Maurice Samuels, Henry Slate, Ray Stevens, George E. Stone, Harry Tenbrook, Wilson Wood, Samuel Fuller, Dwight Taylor
• Director: Samuel Fuller
• Runtime: 1:20
• Company: 20th Century Fox, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie