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Pickup on South Street
Description
A pickpocket inadvertently takes a piece of top secret microfilm of a Communist agent when he intends to pick a purse for money. From that very moment, his death is seemingly warranted, since he becomes the prime target of the Communist spy ring.
A pickpocket inadvertently takes a piece of top secret microfilm of a Communist agent when he intends to pick a purse for money. From that very moment, his death is seemingly warranted, since he becomes the prime target of the Communist spy ring.
Actors:
Willis Bouchey,
Milburn Stone,
Frank Kumagai,
Robert Haines,
Harry Carter,
John Gallaudet,
George E. Stone
Willis Bouchey
24 May 1907, Vernon, Michigan, USA
Milburn Stone
5 July 1904, Burrton, Kansas, USA
Frank Kumagai
27 June 1919, San Bernardino, California, USA
Robert Haines
16 September 1894
Harry Carter
February 27, 1906 in Pony, Montana, USA
John Gallaudet
23 August 1903, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
George E. Stone
18 May 1903, Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Jean Peters #Richard Widmark #Samuel Fuller #Thelma Ritter #Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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October 02, 2002
It isn't his best, but this 1953 feature may be the archetypal Sam Fuller film, a condensation of his themes and techniques with the steam still rising.
September 01, 2015
Like a spiky romantic comedy got stuck in one of the 1950s' bleakest visions of humanity - and it somehow all works magnificently.
March 27, 2009
Both Widmark and Peters are superb, but it is Ritter, as the seedy but much-loved Moe, who gives the film its emotional punch.
May 25, 2015
Samuel Fuller's a master of unpretentious hot-house poetry, and that theoretical contradiction of terms gives one an idea of the irresolvable, elegantly compact flourishes that abound in his films.
August 06, 2015
This atmospheric Cold War crime picture is a class act.
February 09, 2006
Perhaps finally flawed by its overt political assumptions, but the film remains a desperate kind of masterpiece.
May 25, 2015
Fuller's pugnacious direction and his gutter-up view of city life romanticize both the criminal code of honor and the jangling paranoia of global plots; his hard-edged long takes depict underworld cruelty with reportorial wonder ...
December 22, 2014
Cold War anxiety merely heightens the already-combustible fabric of everyday America in Samuel Fuller's two-fisted masterpiece
December 01, 2008
Pickup for the most part falls flat on its face and borders on presumably unintended, comedy.
ColeSmithey.com
May 14, 2009
Almost perfect.
New York Times
March 25, 2006
Sam Fuller, who wrote it and directed, appears to have been more concerned with firing a barrage of sensations than with telling a story to be believed.
May 26, 2015
As good as are Widmark, with his proto-Method grin, and Peters, with her tawny, untutored naturalism, this is Thelma Ritter's movie. She transforms what could have been no more than a colorful eccentric to a figure of unshakable dignity.
