Pickup on South Street
  • Title: Pickup on South Street
  • Original Title: Pickup on South Street
  • Release Date: 27/05/1953
  • Tagline: How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
  • Budget: $780,000.00
  • Duration:80 Min / 01:20
  • Country:US
  • Genre:ThrillerCrime

About Film

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.

Movie Rating: 7.36

Total Votes: 290

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John Chard
John Chard
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 to many many organisations. Director Samuel...
Geronimo1967
Geronimo1967
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 watching this woman? Well it turns out that she is...