Release Date
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Original Release
May 27, 1953
1h 20m
Pickup on South Street (1953)
⭐ 7.480 min
Overview
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.
Director
Samuel Fuller
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.3
Cast
Richard Widmark
Skip McCoy
⭐1.0
Jean Peters
Candy
⭐0.5
Thelma Ritter
Moe Williams
⭐0.4
Murvyn Vye
Captain Dan Tiger
⭐0.2
Richard Kiley
Joey
⭐0.9
Willis Bouchey
Zara
⭐1.0
Milburn Stone
Detective Winoki
⭐1.5
Parley Baer
Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)
⭐1.1
Chet Brandenburg
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
⭐0.3
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Frank Kumagai
Lum (uncredited)
⭐1.7
Genres
ThrillerCrime
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