Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

7.4IMDb Score
Released:1953-05-27
Duration:80 min
Director:Samuel Fuller
Actors:Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley
Production:20th Century Fox

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.

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