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Pickup on South Street (1953) [NR]

Release Date:
May 27, 1953

Original Title:
Pickup on South Street

Alternate Titles:
Alarm auf der South Street
Lange Finger - Harte Fäuste
남부 거리의 소매치기
사우스 스트리트의 소매치기

Genres:
Crime | Thriller

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
FR: U  NL: 12  US: NR 

Runtime: 80

How the law took a chance on a B-girl … and won!

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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.

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Art Direction:
Lyle R. Wheeler
George Patrick

Assistant Director:
Ad Schaumer

Costume Design:
Travilla

Director:
Samuel Fuller

Director of Photography:
Joseph MacDonald

Editor:
Nick DeMaggio

Makeup Artist:
Ben Nye

Music Director:
Lionel Newman

Musician:
Urban Thielmann
Paul Shure

Orchestrator:
Edward B. Powell
Bernard Mayers

Original Music Composer:
Leigh Harline

Producer:
Jules Schermer

Screenplay:
Samuel Fuller

Set Decoration:
Al Orenbach

Sound:
Winston H. Leverett
Harry M. Leonard

Story:
Dwight Taylor

Stunt Double:
John Hudkins

Visual Effects:
Ray Kellogg

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Sam Benson
Charles LeMaire

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