The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 77% of the 117 1950s thriller movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 20m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
333 audience votes
Key crew
- Samuel FullerDirector
- Samuel FullerScreenplay
- Leigh HarlineOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Richard WidmarkSkip McCoy
- Jean PetersCandy
- Thelma RitterMoe Williams
- Murvyn VyeCaptain Dan Tiger
- Richard KileyJoey
- Willis BoucheyZara
- Milburn StoneDetective Winoki
- Parley BaerHeadquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)
- Chet BrandenburgFight Spectator (uncredited)
- Frank KumagaiLum (uncredited)
- Virginia CarrollNurse (uncredited)
- Harry CarterDetective Dietrich (uncredited)
Stills
Movies like Pickup on South Street
Themes
pickpocketcold warfilm noirblack and white