Pickup on South Street

May 27, 1953

1h 20m

★ 7.4

How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!

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.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Skip McCoy

Richard Widmark

Candy

Jean Peters

Moe Williams

Thelma Ritter

Captain Dan Tiger

Murvyn Vye

Joey

Richard Kiley

Zara

Willis Bouchey

Detective Winoki

Milburn Stone

Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)

Parley Baer

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Lum (uncredited)

Frank Kumagai

Nurse (uncredited)

Virginia Carroll

Detective Dietrich (uncredited)

Harry Carter

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