Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street (1953)

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.

Date of release
1953-05-27
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (335)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Thriller, Crime
Director
Samuel Fuller

Casting

  • 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)

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