Pickup on South Street (1953)

Movie Details

Original Title Pickup on South Street

Original Language EN

Budget $780,000

Status Released

Popularity 0.5

Cast

Richard Widmark

Skip McCoy

Popularity: 1.3

Jean Peters

Candy

Popularity: 5.4

Thelma Ritter

Moe Williams

Popularity: 1.2

Murvyn Vye

Captain Dan Tiger

Popularity: 0.6

Richard Kiley

Joey

Popularity: 0.7

Willis Bouchey

Zara

Popularity: 4.3

Milburn Stone

Detective Winoki

Popularity: 5.8

Parley Baer

Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)

Popularity: 1.4

Chet Brandenburg

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Popularity: 0.2

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Frank Kumagai

Lum (uncredited)

Popularity: 0.4

Virginia Carroll

Nurse (uncredited)

Popularity: 0.8

Harry Carter

Detective Dietrich (uncredited)

Popularity: 2.0

Key Crew

Director Samuel Fuller

Screenplay Samuel Fuller

Producer Jules Schermer

Editor Nick DeMaggio

Production

20th Century Fox

Videos & Trailers

Pickup On South Street (1953) trailer

Trailer

Sam Hamm on PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET

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Keywords

pickpocket cold war film noir

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 9/10

Jun 25, 2019

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 of high interest ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jun 21, 2023

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 are others watchi ... Read more