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Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 27, 1953

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Thriller, Crime

User Score

74%

Original Title

Pickup on South Street

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

Samuel Fuller

Budget

$780,000

Description

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.