Pickup on South Street

Movie
TitlePickup on South Street
User score

7.4

Release dateMay 27, 1953
GenreThriller, Crime
DirectorSamuel Fuller
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companies20th Century Fox
Budget$780,000
Run time80 min.

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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