Pickup on South Street (1953)





A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.


Books with substantial mentioning of Pickup on South Street

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

David Sterritt and John Anderson (eds.)
The B list, The National Society of Film Critics on the low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks, and cult classics we love
Cambridge, MA, 2008

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Jack Shadoian
Dreams & dead ends, The American gangster film
Oxford; New York, 2003

Douglas Brode
Lost Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1988

Christian Unucka
Richard Widmark und seine Filme, Ein filmographischer Bildband
Hebertshausen, 1984

Books with an entry on Pickup on South Street

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Articles with substantial mentioning of Pickup on South Street

Robert Porfirio and James Ursini, Samuel Fuller (1912-1997), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002