Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
19531h 20minThriller MoviesEnglish
7.4

Plot

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.

WriterDwight Taylor
DirectorSamuel Fuller
ActorRichard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
CountryUnited States of America
Production20th Century Fox