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Pickup on South Street

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

1953 · NR · 1h 20m

Directed by Samuel Fuller

7.4

TMDB audience score
342 votes, out of 10

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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

  • 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)

  • Frank Kumagai
    Lum (uncredited)

  • Virginia Carroll
    Nurse (uncredited)

  • Harry Carter
    Detective Dietrich (uncredited)

  • Clancy Cooper
    Detective Eddie (uncredited)

  • Henry Slate
    Detective MacGregor (uncredited)

  • Heinie Conklin
    Subway Passenger (uncredited)

  • George Eldredge
    Fenton (uncredited)

  • John Gallaudet
    Detective Lieutenant Campion (uncredited)

  • Alan Reed
    Detective (uncredited)