Pickup on South Street (1953)

Highly Recommended

USA
Feature Film
Director: Samuel Fuller
Writers: Samuel Fuller, Dwight Taylor
Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald
Composer: Leigh Harline
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis B. Bouchey, Milburn Stone

The fabulous Ritter’s is the pick of a number of excellent performances in Fuller’s muscular, grimy, and sweatily sexy film, following the often confounding actions of Widmark’s amoral pickpocket after he unwittingly becomes involved with a ring of Communist spies. Iain.Stott