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How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won! - Pickup on South Street
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Title: Pickup on South Street

Release Date: 27 May 1953

Runtime: 1h 20m

Genre: Thriller, Crime

Director: 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

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.

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Average Vote: 7.356 (289 votes)

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
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