Pickup on South Street

1h 20m · 1953 · Directed by Samuel Fuller · 3.9 / 5 on Letterboxd

Pickup on South Street (1953) runs 1h 20m, directed by Samuel Fuller. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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 the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

Genres: Romance, Thriller, Crime

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