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Friday, Jul 29, 2022
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Pickup on South Street
Archival 35mm Print
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter,
In one of the greatest film noirs of all time, Fuller takes aim “at the idiocy of the Cold War climate of the fifties,” managing to irk Herbert Hoover and leftist French critics with “a movie about small time crooks . . . struggling to survive . . . abiding by their own unwritten code of ethics.” Candy (Jean Peters), pickpocket Skip (Richard Widmark), and Moe (Thelma Ritter) are honest criminals who get caught between the cops and a Communist plot. The sublime scenes of Skip plying his trade are recognizable inspiration for Robert Bresson in Pickpocket (1959).
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Samuel Fuller
Based On
a story by Dwight Taylor
Cinematographer
- Joseph MacDonald
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 80 mins
Source
- George Eastman Museum
Permission
- 20th Century Studios/Criterion Pictures
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Samuel Fuller (program note), Institut Valencià de l'Audiovisual i de Cinematografia Ricardo Muñoz Suay, Quim Casas, 2010
Pulp fictions: the films of Samuel Fuller (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, James Quandt, 1998
Un Americain en Normandie: le jour j de Samuel Fuller (press kit), GMT Productions, Noël Simsolo, 1994
Pick up on South Street (program note), Cinémathèque Française, Luc Moullet, 1981
Pickup on South Street (program note), Edinburgh Film Festival, 1980
Pick-up on South Street (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, 1971
The director's event -- excerpt (book excerpt), Atheneum Press, Eric Sherman, 1970
The American cinema (program note), Blake Lucas, 1970
Fuller (interview), 1970
Excerpt from an interview with Sam Fuller (before he shot The naked kiss) (program note), 1969
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