May 27, 1953
80 min
Full-HD

Pickup on South Street (1953)

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.

Category

Thriller Crime

Country

United States of America

Companies

20th Century Fox

Richard Widmark

Skip McCoy

Jean Peters

Candy

Thelma Ritter

Moe Williams

Murvyn Vye

Captain Dan Tiger

Richard Kiley

Joey

Willis Bouchey

Zara

Parley Baer

Headquarters Communist in Chair

Chet Brandenburg

Fight Spectator

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