ApprovedPickup on South Street

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IMDB (16,689 votes)

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Rotten Tomatoes

500M
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Play Time: 80 mins
Thriller, Crime
Pickup on South Street

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.

Status: Released (1953-05-27)
Awards:Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
Screen:Samuel Fuller, Dwight Taylor
Productions: 20th Century Fox
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Pickup on South Street
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Reviews

John Chard

Review text:

Forget the communist fervour and delve deeper. Skip McCoy is a three time loser pick pocket, unable to curb his instincts back on the street, he picks the purse of Candy on a subway train. What he doesn't realise is that Candy is carrying top secret microfilm, microfilm that is o ....

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CinemaSerf

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Richard Widmark is quite effective in this quickly paced espionage thriller. He's a petty thief whom we see lifting something from a woman's purse on a busy subway train. He's not the only one watching her, though, and as he makes his exit he narrowly avoids capture the police. Why a ....

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