Pickup on South Street Comments

  • Cordelia 2023-07-11 07:37:01

    The beautiful camera movement, especially the scheduling in the small space, is very powerful. The opening pickpocketing scene can accurately guide the audience's sight in the crowded carriage and bring out the relationship between multiple characters. As a film noir in the context of McCarthyism, it inevitably brings too clear ideological color, which greatly weakens the complexity of the characters, and the concern for the bottom is also covered by a strong "patriotic brilliance". The only...

  • Gardner 2023-07-09 04:57:36

    Atypical noir film, the beginning shows a sharp cut that is different from the conventional, inverting the infatuated man and the femme fatale, the images of the male and female protagonists are great, the most important thing is that this movie is black and full of elegance and love at the same time. Elegance, the grace of death, the elegance of the saxophone mixed in the...

  • Rosie 2023-07-04 09:33:19

    From an ideological point of view, I had to give a low score, because I hated the McCarthyism of the year, and the director just endorsed...

  • Carroll 2023-06-30 22:39:25

    It turns out that letting the woman go out to fight for her life and then "let me go!" is an awesome film...

  • Nakia 2023-06-05 20:34:30

    Pickpockets, the police, the Communist Party, state secrets; stealing has its own way, capitalism's darkening of the Communist...

  • Adell 2023-05-30 05:53:45

    Not grade B at all, not NB at...

  • Ross 2023-05-08 04:52:31

    Master Bu's pickpocket was inspired by this,...

  • Lurline 2023-05-01 12:57:37

    A qualified combination of skill and various popular standards. A cold war background story that is easy for the general public to accept, several event arrangements related to the interaction of goals and difficulties, a charming sexy girl character, another romantic thief floating in the world, the patriotic attributes of the protagonist, no Shots and soundtracks that convey sexual innuendo to the audience every now and then. Despite the lack of memorable meaning, it can be regarded as a...

  • Brain 2023-04-23 17:13:48

    The wife is too sexy, or too erotic. Every time the hero and heroine meet, the teasing, aggression, kissing and dialogue have completely made me lose my resistance, which is more powerful than those scenes in the recognized "Lady Eve"! In the end, the happy ending won my heart. The plot is not complicated, and the theme is quite naive, but it is very enjoyable to...

  • Giuseppe 2023-04-19 16:20:56

    Three and a half ~ The girl suddenly fell in love with the thief is really inexplicable, the two turned from a gangster to a patriot and rose to a high level ~ The grandmother and the murderer complained that life was hard, and it felt unnatural for the needs of the plot. The fight in the hotel and the subway station is very exciting, and it is not inferior to the current film. The scene of beating up the girl is very violent. In fact, I think this woman is really asking for it to deal with the...

Extended Reading
  • Lucinda 2022-09-07 17:45:51

    yin and yang

    At the beginning of the film, the thief skip stole the wallet of the female protagonist candy's bag on a crowded tram. As a result, the wallet contained a state secret film, which was in the hands of the Communist Party organization, and the lady was only used to I don't know anything about film...

  • Rosella 2022-09-07 18:43:11

    The Impure "Film Noir" of "Black"

    Those who don't like to watch "film noir" may think that "film noir" is a story about a group of lawless guys breaking the law. actually not. The characters in "film noir" each have their own moral bottom line, but their moral bottom line is different from that of ordinary people. Those who have no...

Pickup on South Street quotes

  • Moe Williams: Listen, Mister. When I come in here tonight, you seen an old clock runnin' down. I'm tired. I'm through. Happens to everybody sometime. It'll happen to you too, someday. With me it's a little bit of everything. Backaches and headaches. I can't sleep nights. It's so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed and walk the streets. Climb the stairs. I go right on doin' it! Well, what am I gonna do, knock it? I have to go on makin' a livin'... so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin' fer if I gotta do bus'ness with crumbs like you.

  • Skip McCoy: [to Capt. Tiger] You're sittin' on a hot rock. I'd like to see you jump!