Pickup on South Street

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Pickup on South Street

film by Fuller [1953]

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Samuel Fuller
Films of the 1950s
Pickup on South Street (1953) was a noir with a Cold War theme. Richard Widmark played a penny-ante pickpocket who unknowingly lifts a roll of microfilm that both the Russians and the FBI want, ultimately landing him on the side of the law. Thelma Ritter…
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Pickup on South Street (1953) was a noir with a Cold War theme. Richard Widmark played a penny-ante pickpocket who unknowingly lifts a roll of microfilm that both the Russians and the FBI want, ultimately landing him on the side of the law. Thelma Ritter…
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film noir
The legacy of film noir
Pickup on South Street (1953), directed by Samuel Fuller, attacked postwar American capitalism; its central character is a man who accidentally acquires a top-secret microfilm but will only part with it for a price, no matter how that may jeopardize the safety of his country.…
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Pickup on South Street (1953), directed by Samuel Fuller, attacked postwar American capitalism; its central character is a man who accidentally acquires a top-secret microfilm but will only part with it for a price, no matter how that may jeopardize the safety of his country.…
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