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Pickup on South Street. Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters), he finds a more spectacular haul than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. information.
10 de dic. de 2021 · Director Samuel Fuller was a hero to the generation of French New Wave critics and filmmakers. Here, a look at “Pickup on South Street” (1953). It has the best NYC-centric opening sequence in ...
25 de may. de 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.
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 ...
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 ...
21 de jun. de 2021 · Picture 8/10. The Criterion Collection upgrades their previous DVD edition for Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street to Blu-ray, presenting the film on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition encode is sourced from a "new" 4K restoration scanned from the 35mm original camera negative.
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 ...
