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Pickup on South Street

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

27 May 1953 · 80 min · English

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Synopsis

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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Cast & characters

Richard Widmark

Skip McCoy

Jean Peters

Candy

Thelma Ritter

Moe Williams

Murvyn Vye

Captain Dan Tiger

Richard Kiley

Joey

Willis Bouchey

Zara

Milburn Stone

Detective Winoki

Parley Baer

Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

F

Frank Kumagai

Lum (uncredited)

Virginia Carroll

Nurse (uncredited)

Harry Carter

Detective Dietrich (uncredited)

Behind the camera

Key crew

Director
Samuel Fuller
Writing
Samuel Fuller, Dwight Taylor
Cinematography
Joseph MacDonald
Original music
Leigh Harline

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