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Dec 10, 2021 · Pickup on South Street. Photo: AF archive/Alamy. Samuel Fuller (1912–1997) became a newspaper copy boy when he was just 12. By the time he was 17, he was working the murder beat for the New York ...
Pickup on South Street (1953) is a Cold War spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. This movie was screened at Venice Film Festival in 1953.
Samuel Fuller’s sensational film noir casts a steely eye at America in the dawn of the Cold War, and brings 1950s New York City alive on the screen in a manner rarely equaled in the annals of film. In one of his greatest roles, Richard Widmark plays Skip McCoy, a seasoned pickpocket who unknowingly filches some radioactive loot: microfilm of ...
The plot of “Pickup on South Street” revolves around the protagonist Skip McCoy (played by Richard Widmark), an unscrupulous pickpocket operating in the South Street neighborhood of New York. His life takes a dangerous turn when he decides to steal the wallet of a young woman named Candy ( played by Jean Peters) on a crowded subway.
Samuel Fuller scarcely used Dwight Taylor's source material, a languid courtroom romance, in crafting this pugnacious potboiler. Pickup on South Street is strictly Fuller film noir -- lean and wicked straight to its core. Barely out of prison, loner and pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) quietly helps himself to the contents of a woman's ...
Feb 17, 2004 · When ‘Pickup on South Street’ was released in 1953 during an era where the cold war climate put an eerie chill over the United States, Fuller’s film jabbed at this absurd paranoia by representing characters whose motivations were more basic, more insignificant than politics or borders or top-secret formulas.
Pickup on South Street (1953) In Samuel Fuller’s New York noir, the FBI pressures a pickpocket to help them track down Communist spies. Fuller’s film about a pickpocket (Widmark) pressurised by the FBI to help them hunt down Communist spies is characteristic in its blending of a pacy, punchy generic narrative, an unapologetically forthright ...
