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93% Tomatometer 40 Reviews. 89% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex...
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- Richard Widmark
- Samuel Fuller
- Mystery & Thriller
Pickup on South Street Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Fedor Tot Vague Visages. That, of course, doesn’t mean urban anxiety and corruption aren’t...
May 25, 2015 · Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street opens with a striking omission of dialogue and score, heightening our awareness of the film’s pared-down compositions and its diamond-hard editing rhythms. On a New York City subway train, a beautiful woman, Candy (Jean Peters), is scrutinized by two men who are obviously tailing her.
The movie has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 40 reviews with an average score of 7.8/10. The consensus summarizes: "Powerfully acted and satisfyingly dark, Pickup on South Street is a Cold War noir that moves confidently to the rhythm of city street life." Roger Ebert regards Pickup as one of Fuller's "noir classics."
Directed by Samuel Fuller, who also wrote the screenplay, Pickup on South Street is a tough, brutal, well made film about a pickpocket (Richard Widmark) who inadvertently aquires top-secret microfilm and becomes a target for espionage agents.
Pickup on South Street: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye. A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
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Jul 19, 2021 · Pickup on South Street is a fantastic title as well, critic Imogen Sara Smith notes in a new interview included with the Criterion Collection Blu-ray release. It combines the precise—South Street—with the ambiguous—Pickup—which could mean an arrest, the act of pickpocketing or the romance between Skip and Candy.
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