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

Pickup on South Street quotes

  • Skip McCoy: So you're a Red, who cares? Your money's as good as anybody else's.

  • Skip McCoy: You boys are talking to the wrong corner. I'm just a guy keeping my hands in my own pockets.

    FBI Agent Zara: If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb.

    Skip McCoy: Are you waving the flag at *me*?