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Pickup on South Street

7.4 80 mins Thriller   Crime   1953
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Samuel Fuller

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.

Casts of Pickup on South Street

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)

Frank Kumagai

as Lum (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)

Robert Haines

as Library Worker (uncredited)

Jay Loft-Lyn

as Microfilm Library Clerk (uncredited)

Ray Montgomery

as Ray, FBI Agent (uncredited)

Jerry O'Sullivan

as FBI Agent Enyart (uncredited)

Ray Stevens

as FBI Agent (uncredited)

Ralph Moody

as Coffin Boat Captain (uncredited)

Roger Moore

as Mr. Victor (uncredited)

Vic Perry

as Lightning Louie (uncredited)

George E. Stone

as Willie, Police Desk Clerk (uncredited)

King Mojave

as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook

as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

Stuart Randall

as Police Commissioner (uncredited)

Wilson Wood

as Police Driver (uncredited)

Maurice Samuels

as Peddler (uncredited)

George Berkeley

as Secondary Role (uncredited)

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