Pickup on South Street
Thriller
Crime
How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
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.
1953-05-27
en
Cast
Director
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy
Jean Peters as Candy
Thelma Ritter as Moe Williams
Murvyn Vye as Captain Dan Tiger
Richard Kiley as Joey
Willis Bouchey as Zara
Milburn Stone as Detective Winoki
Parley Baer as Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg as Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Virginia Carroll as Nurse (uncredited)
Harry Carter as Detective Dietrich (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper as Detective Eddie (uncredited)
Henry Slate as Detective MacGregor (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
George Eldredge as Fenton (uncredited)
John Gallaudet as Detective Lieutenant Campion (uncredited)
Alan Reed as Detective (uncredited)
Ray Montgomery as Ray, FBI Agent (uncredited)
Ralph Moody as Coffin Boat Captain (uncredited)
Roger Moore as Mr. Victor (uncredited)
George E. Stone as Willie, Police Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Stuart Randall as Police Commissioner (uncredited)