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Pickup on South Street

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1953 80 min

Rated
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Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller (screenplay), Dwight Taylor (story)
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter

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Mercenary pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) and a brassy streetwalker named Candy (Jean Peters) find themselves frantically playing both ends against the middle when some purloined microfilm puts them in the crossfire between Communist spies and Federal agents. Fuller's punchy and apolitical thriller sides with society's marginalized miscreants at a time when the nation was being torn apart by McCarthy era ideology. Featuring a memorable Oscar-nominated turn by Thelma Ritter as the sage grafter, Moe. Many consider this Fuller's signature work: smart, savvy, and stylish—a cinematic slap-in-the-face that's a perfect blending of Fuller's tabloid style and Fox's polished craftsmanship. 

Presented in DCP courtesy of 20th Century–Fox

1953
USA
English
80 min
Limited Availability

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