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pickup on south street is the kind of film that finds beauty and complication in the prosaic, the every day folks that exist in the liminal spaces of life just trying to get by. these people are rough hewn, venal, cunning. what’s most interesting in rewatching pickup this time — which i haven’t seen since college over ten years ago (dear goddess) — is that even though it’s positioned as anti-communist propaganda it displays the american identity for all its grit and failures and in ...
The desperate agent exterminates Moe and savagely beats Candy. McCoy, now goaded into action, confronts the agent in a particularly brutal fight in a subway. — alfiehitchie. In New York, the pickpocket Skip McCoy steals a wallet from the purse of a woman named Candy in the subway. His action is witnessed by FBI Agent Zara but Skip escapes ...
Dwight Taylor. Story. 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 ...
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET. Directed by. Samuel Fuller. United States, 1953. Film noir, Crime, Mystery. 80. Synopsis. In Sam Fuller’s hardboiled classic, a petty crook ...
Title: Pickup on South Street Summary: A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. Directed by: Samuel Fuller Actors: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: 1 August 1953 (Japan) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Aug 5, 2019 · FBI agent Zara (Willis B. Bouchey) has been tailing her, knowing the microfilm contains valuable scientific data to be used by the Commies and that she’s passing it on to a Mr. Big in the Commie party–the one the cop wants most to nab. Zara enlists the help of the local police to locate the pickpocket. Captain Tiger (Murvyn Vye) uses paid ...
May 25, 2015 · 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.
