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Pickup on South Street

How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!

7.382 average rating
7.382
English / 80 MIN. / 1953

The Genres

The 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.

The Cast

Richard WidmarkJean PetersThelma RitterMurvyn VyeRichard KileyWillis BoucheyMilburn StoneParley BaerChet BrandenburgFrank KumagaiVirginia CarrollHarry CarterClancy CooperHenry SlateHeinie ConklinGeorge EldredgeJohn GallaudetAlan ReedRobert HainesJay Loft-LynRay MontgomeryJerry O'SullivanRay StevensRalph MoodyRoger MooreVic PerryGeorge E. StoneKing MojaveHarry TenbrookStuart RandallWilson WoodMaurice SamuelsGeorge Berkeley

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