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Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

7.4/ 10

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1953

Release Year

80 min

Runtime

Thriller
Crime

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.

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Keywords

pickpocket
cold war
film noir
black and white

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Reviews(2)

8.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

June 25, 2019

9
9/10

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

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 21, 2023

7
7/10

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

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