Pickup on South Street (1953)

80 min

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Movie Info:

Actor : JRichard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Parley Baer, Chet Brandenburg, Frank Kumagai, Virginia Carroll, Milburn Stone, Harry Carter
Director : Samuel Fuller
Writer : Dwight Taylor
Genre : Crime , Drama , Film-noir , Mystery , Thriller
Release : 05/27/1953
Country : United States
Tagline : How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
Language : English
Synopsis : 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.