--- title: 'Pickup on South Street (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'Samuel Fuller' released: '1953-01-01' runtime_minutes: 80 genres: - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/pickup-on-south-street-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Pickup on South Street (1953) 1953 · 80 min · Thriller · United States ## Synopsis Pickup on South Street is a 1953 American spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter. Widmark plays a pickpocket who unwittingly steals a covert microfilm sought by foreign agents. The film combines elements of the traditional crime film noir with Cold War-era espionage drama. It was released by 20th Century-Fox. ## Credits - **Director:** [Samuel Fuller](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-fuller) - **Screenplay:** [Samuel Fuller](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-fuller) - **Original Music Composer:** [Leigh Harline](https://cinepixo.com/people/leigh-harline) - **Producer:** [Jules Schermer](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-schermer) - **Director of Photography:** [Joseph MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-macdonald) - **Editor:** [Nick DeMaggio](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-demaggio) ## Cast - [Willis Bouchey](https://cinepixo.com/people/willis-bouchey) - [Murvyn Vye](https://cinepixo.com/people/murvyn-vye) - [Clancy Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/clancy-cooper) - [Richard Widmark](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-widmark) - [Milburn Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/milburn-stone) - [Thelma Ritter](https://cinepixo.com/people/thelma-ritter) - [Richard Kiley](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-kiley) - [Jean Peters](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-peters) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/pickup-on-south-street-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1311296); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.