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Pickup on South Street

05/27/1953

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1hr 20min

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Thriller

,Crime

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

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Richard Widmark
  • Jean Peters
  • Thelma Ritter
  • Murvyn Vye
  • Richard Kiley

    Directors

  • Samuel Fuller
  • Ad Schaumer

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • 20th Century Fox

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

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)

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