| | Pickup On South Street DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Suspense Videos, Criterion Collection, Spies | | Starring | Richard Widmark, Richard Kiley, lma Ritter, Jean Peters, Milburn Stone, Willis Bouchey, Murvyn Vye, Harry Carter, Jerry O'Sullivan | | Director | Samuel Fuller | | Composer | Leigh Harline | | Director of Photography | Joseph MacDonald | | Editor | Nick DeMaggio | | Music Director | Lionel Newman | | Producer | Jules Schermer | | Production Designer | Lyle Wheeler, George Patrick | | Screenwriter | Samuel Fuller | | Source Writer | Dwight Taylor |
Black & White; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles This film noir classic plays on America's paranoia about a Communist takeover in the 1950s.
Dwelling in a neon-lit nightscape are: a pickpocket, Skip McCoy; an abused dame, Candy; a seen-it-all stoolie, Moe; Joey, Candy's violent boyfriend and Communist plotter; shifty G-Men; cynical cops; and a whole nest of vipers in fedoras and trenchcoats.
Joey forces Candy to deliver a secret package for him. Then Skip snatches Candy's purse and inadvertently takes a cryptic film that some underground Reds have stolen. A pair of Feds tracking the film's whereabouts witness the pickpocket and close in on him. But Skip first considers cutting a deal with the Communists.
Then he realizes that several parties are interested in the film -- and some are even willing to kill for it! A skid row pickpocket acquires a top-secret microfilm. He stumbles onto a plot to sell military secrets and is now the target in a world of intrigue and espionage. Additional cast: Henry Slate (MacGregor); Harry Carter (Dietrich); Stuart Randall (Police Commissioner); Frank Kumagi (Lum); Victor Perry (Lightning Louie); George Berkeley (Customer); Emmett Lynn (Sandwich Man); Maurice Samuels (Peddler); Jay Loftlin (Librarian); and Virginia Carroll (Nurse). Pickup On South Street Reviews: "...A major film noir classic....Love those Fuller close-ups..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "Samuel Fuller's sweaty 1953 noir speedball PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET gets the Criterion treatment and it plays like a poison pen letter from the past."
-- Grady Hendrix, Film Comment "Sam Fuller's explosive pulp classic, a red-menace thriller, pitched near hysteria from start to finish….Definitive Fuller, definitive noir."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut
This is the only Jerry O'Sullivan video. Pickup On South Street | List Price | $29.95 (You save $6.56) | | Studio | Criterion Collection | | Orig Year | 1953 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10896  | | CD Universe Part number | 6651903 | | Catalog number | 1600 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 17, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 80 Minutes | | Additional Info | Black & White | | Movie Details | B&W; Black & White |
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Pickup On South Street DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono
1.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interviews: Sam Fuller - Director
Text/Photo Galleries:
Illustrated Biographical Essay on Fuller by Jeb Brody
Stills Gallery of Photos, Posters, Lobby Cards, and Original Paintings by Russell Christian
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