Blu-ray
Pickup on South Street
Call Number
- BLU-RAY MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis B. Bouchey, Milburn Stone.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (80 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
'Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a more spectacular haul than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. information. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, right against Red, and passion against self-preservation. With its dazzling cast and writer-director Samuel Fuller's signature hard-boiled repartee and raw energy, Pickup on South Street is a true film noir classic by one of America's most passionate cinematic craftspeople."--Container.
Notes
From a story by Dwight Taylor.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; new interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In lonely places: film noir beyond the city ; interview from 1989 with director Samuel Fuller, conducted by film critic Richard Schickel ; Cinéma cinémas: Fuller, a 1982 French television program in which the director discusses the making of the film ; Hollywood Radio Theater adaptation of the film from 1954, starring Thelma Ritter ; trailers from Fuller's films.