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Pickup on South Street

IMDb 7.4 1953 Movie 80 min

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.

Thriller Crime

Starring

Richard Widmark

Jean Peters

Thelma Ritter

Murvyn Vye

Richard Kiley

Willis Bouchey

Milburn Stone

Parley Baer