Directed by:
Samuel FullerScreenplay:
Samuel FullerCinematography:
Joseph MacDonaldComposer:
Leigh HarlineCast:
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone, Parley Baer, George E. Stone, Stuart Randall (more)Plots(1)
"If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb". "Are you waving the flag at ME?!" Samuel Fuller's sensational film noir casts a steely eye at America in the dawn of the Cold War, and brings 1950s New York City alive on the screen in a manner rarely equalled in the annals of film. In one of his greatest roles, Richard Widmark plays Skip McCoy, a seasoned pickpocket who unknowingly filches some radioactive loot: microfilm of top-secret government documents. Soon after, Skip finds himself mixed up with federal agents, Commie agents, and a professional stoolpigeon by the name of Moe (played by Thelma Ritter). With its complex ideology, outrageous dialogue, and electric action sequences, Pickup on South Street crackles in a way that only a Sam Fuller movie can, and is widely considered one of the director's finest achievements. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Richard Widmark
USA
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Jean Peters
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Thelma Ritter
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Murvyn Vye
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Pickup on South Street (1953)
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Richard Kiley
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Willis Bouchey
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Milburn Stone
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Parley Baer
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George E. Stone
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Stuart Randall
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Chet Brandenburg
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Ralph Moody
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Ray Montgomery
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George Eldredge
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Heinie Conklin
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Alan Reed
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Clancy Cooper
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John Gallaudet
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