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Pickup on South Street(Movie, 1953)

NR

| 1h 20min | Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 115 votes)

Pickup on South Street is a 1953 Cold War spy-themed film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and released by 20th Century-Fox. In 2018, Pickup on South Street was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival in 1953. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Pickup on South Street

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

About Pickup on South Street

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC), New York

Made by: 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/27/1953

Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone, Clancy Cooper

Director: Samuel Fuller

Producer: Jules Schermer

Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller

Film Editor: Nick DeMaggio

Director of Photography: Joseph MacDonald

Composer: Leigh Harline

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Lange Finger - Harte Fäuste"

"Alarm auf der South Street"

"남부 거리의 소매치기"

"사우스 스트리트의 소매치기"

Keywords: pickpocket, film noir, cold war

Budget: 780,000 USD

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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