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    Pickup on South Street 1953 POSTER

    Pickup on South Street

    1953

    English

    7.6

    ♡ 14

    93%

    89%

    Action

    cold war

    Crime

    Drama

    film noir

    Film-Noir

    Mystery

    noir

    pickpocket

    preserved film

    Romance

    Thriller

    Samuel Fuller Samuel Fuller Director Harry Carter Harry Carter as Detective Dietrich Milburn Stone Milburn Stone as Detective Winoki Thelma Ritter Thelma Ritter as Moe Williams George E. Stone George E. Stone as Willie - Police Desk Clerk
    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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