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Pickup on South Street

Name: Pickup on South Street
Director: Samuel Fuller
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1953-05-27
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley

ThrillerCrime

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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Cast

Richard WidmarkJean PetersThelma RitterMurvyn VyeRichard KileyWillis BoucheyMilburn StoneParley BaerChet BrandenburgFrank KumagaiVirginia CarrollHarry Carter

Director

Samuel Fuller

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