
Pickup on South Street
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.
ThrillerCrime
Pickup on South Street
Rating
7.4/10
Release Date
1953-05-27
Runtime
80 minutes
Status
Released
Cast

Richard Widmark
Skip McCoy

Jean Peters
Candy

Thelma Ritter
Moe Williams

Murvyn Vye
Captain Dan Tiger

Richard Kiley
Joey

Willis Bouchey
Zara

Milburn Stone
Detective Winoki

Parley Baer
Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg
Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Frank Kumagai
Lum (uncredited)

Virginia Carroll
Nurse (uncredited)

Harry Carter
Detective Dietrich (uncredited)
Videos
Production Companies

20th Century Fox