Pickup on South Street (1953)

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Pickup on South Street (Original Title)

StoryLine

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.

Details

Tag Line: How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 27/05/1953
Budget: $780,000 (estimated)
Companies: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 80 min
Popularity: 7.407
Spoken Languages: English
Status: Released