Pickup on South Street

• 7.4 Thriller
• 1953-05-27
• 80 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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))

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Writer:

Samuel Fuller