Pickup on South Street (1953)
How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
80 min
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.
- Release date
- May 27, 1953
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Leigh Harline
- Budget
- $780,000
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Trailer
Soundtrack
- Prologue1:04
- The Cabin2:06
- Disbelief1:49
- Ruth2:53
- Ship at Sea3:56
- Night Terror4:46
- The Fog3:19
- The Doctor2:01
- Barlow3:23
- Grateful1:52
- Main Titleinstrumental1:04
- South Streetinstrumental2:26
Cast
- Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy
- Jean Peters as Candy
- Thelma Ritter as Moe Williams
- Murvyn Vye as Police Captain Dan Tiger
- Richard Kiley as Joey
- Willis Bouchey as Zara
- Milburn Stone as Detective Winoki
- Parley Baer as Headquarters Communist in Chair
- Chet Brandenburg as Fight Spectator
- 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)
- Ray Montgomery as Ray, FBI Agent (uncredited)
- Jerry O'Sullivan as FBI Agent Enyart (uncredited)
- Ralph Moody as Coffin Boat Captain (uncredited)
- Roger Moore as Mr. Victor (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)
- George Berkeley as Undetermined Secondary Role
Crew
- Samuel Fuller · Director
- Samuel Fuller · Writer
- Dwight Taylor · Writer
- Jules Schermer · Producer
- Leigh Harline · Composer
- Joseph MacDonald · Cinematographer
- Nick DeMaggio · Editor