Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. From a story by Dwight Taylor. Full screen (1.33:1). 4K digital restoration. Special features: New interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith; interview from 1989 with Samuel Fuller, conducted by Richard Schickel; Cinéma cinémas: Fuller (a 1982 French television program with Fuller discussing the making of Pickup on South Street); a 1954 Hollywood Radio Theater adaptation of the film; trailers from Fuller's films. Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis B. Bouchey, Milburn Stone, Jerry O'Sullivan, Harry Carter.
Summary:
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
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