Pickup on South Street

1953

80 min

7.4

Ends at

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.

Budget

$780,000

Genre

Thriller, Crime

Director

Samuel Fuller

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Richard Widmark

Jean Peters

Thelma Ritter

Murvyn Vye

Richard Kiley

Willis Bouchey

Milburn Stone

Parley Baer

Chet Brandenburg

Frank Kumagai

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Pickup on South Street

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.

  • Richard Widmark

  • Jean Peters

  • Thelma Ritter

  • Murvyn Vye

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