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Pickup on South Street is a 1953 Cold War spy-themed film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and released by 20th Century-Fox.In 2018, Pickup on South Street was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter.
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 ...
Pickup On South Street (1953) -- (Movie Clip) A Girl Makes Mistakes Writer-director Sam Fuller is all business as pickpocket Skip (Richard Widmark) revives Candy (Jean Peters), having knocked her out when she arrived at his waterfront shack to retrieve her wallet, in Pickup On South Street, 1953.
The grace and delicacy with which Samuel Fuller portrays marginalized people is one of his greatest strengths as a director, and it's something which has never been more apparent than it is in Pickup on South Street, a film he also wrote.Never either condemning or simplistically celebrating his people on the margins — usually criminals, but also sometimes those pushed aside by society; often ...
24 de ago. de 2015 · Pickup on South Street was made at 20th Century Fox under the sympathetic eye of producer Darryl F Zanuck during Fuller’s only time as a well-paid contract director. It’s a masterly film noir ...
Written by John Chard on June 25, 2019. 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 ...
Moe is one of the many desperate characters plotting to survive another day in Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street, which stars Richard Widmark as prolific pickpocket Skip McCoy who steals more than he bargained for from subway passenger Candy (Jean Peters). It seems Candy had been unknowingly transporting government secrets on microfilm ...
