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Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

IMDB:

7.4
Pickup on South Street

Released

5/27/1953

Duration

1h 20m

Genre

Thriller, Crime

Country

United States of America

Cast

Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter

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.

Cast

Richard Widmark

Skip McCoy

Richard Widmark

Jean Peters

Candy

Jean Peters

Thelma Ritter

Moe Williams

Thelma Ritter

Murvyn Vye

Captain Dan Tiger

Murvyn Vye

Richard Kiley

Joey

Richard Kiley

Willis Bouchey

Zara

Willis Bouchey

Milburn Stone

Detective Winoki

Milburn Stone

Parley Baer

Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)

Parley Baer

Chet Brandenburg

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Frank Kumagai

Lum (uncredited)

Frank Kumagai

Virginia Carroll

Nurse (uncredited)

Virginia Carroll

Harry Carter

Detective Dietrich (uncredited)

Harry Carter

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