Pickup on South Street

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Date: January 01, 1953 to December 31, 1953
Dates Note: 1953
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: a story by Dwight Taylor
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From the Front Page to the Front Lines: The Essential Sam Fuller
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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). 

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