Pickup on South Street
(1953)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 333 votes
Year: 1953
Runtime: 80 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Ричард Уидмарк, Jean Peters, Тельма Риттер, Murvyn Vye, Ричард Кайли, Уиллис Бучи, Milburn Stone, Парли Баэр, Chet Brandenburg, Frank Kumagai
Plot
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.
On a crowded subway, Skip McCoy picks the purse of Candy. Among his take, although he does not know it at the time, is a piece of top-secret microfilm that was being passed by Candy's consort, a Communist agent. Candy discovers the whereabouts of the film through Moe Williams, a police informer. She attempts to seduce McCoy to recover the film. She fails to get back the film and falls in love with him. The desperate agent exterminates Moe and savagely beats Candy. McCoy, now goaded into action, confronts the agent in a particularly brutal fight in a subway.