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Pickup on South Street (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Crime Thriller

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

Release Date: 1953, May 27
Directors: Samuel Fuller
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Jean Peters, Parley Baer, Chet Brandenburg, Harry Carter, Stuart Randall, George Eldredge, George E. Stone, Richard Kiley, Thelma Ritter, Robert Haines, Harry Tenbrook, Wilson Wood

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.

Keywords:

film noir cold war black and white pickpocket