Pickup on South Street Comments

  • Carol 2023-04-18 07:22:19

    Film noir, but lacking many elements of film noir, full of traces of German expressionism, a bit...

  • Clair 2023-04-12 17:14:16

    Works by Samuel Fuller. The story centers on the pickpocket and runs two story threads in parallel. The portrayal of pickpockets in the movie is mostly borrowed from...

  • Cristobal 2023-04-12 04:47:04

    CD-ROM waste bird, D9 all kinds of...

  • Gladyce 2023-04-09 07:29:12

    #SecondFuller# The stubborn thief was inspired by nationalism to voluntarily arrest spies, which can be considered a politically correct work in the context of the Cold War. The depiction of New York's underclass is very accurate. Widmark is so fitting for this little...

  • Adam 2023-04-08 15:03:16

    Fuller's anti-femme temperament is very strong, manifested in coercion, shoving and beating. The assumption is wrong with the film noir routine, and there is a bright setting in the dark ending, but it is...

  • Melany 2023-03-25 22:41:17

    Wonderful performance by Thelma Ritter, Mam'selle sounds...

  • Rebeca 2023-03-16 11:15:43

    This stealing technique is learned from Michelle in Pickpocket. I really like this film, there are no femme fatales, there are lovely and bloody female protagonists, and a male protagonist with a low moral bottom line but such a chivalrous person. He is a hero, but at the end, it is not attributed to patriotic enthusiasm, but "who told you to beat the old woman". The scene where the heroine was shot is simply...

  • Nakia 2023-03-09 18:15:16

    Cops and thieves fight communism together. . Works under McCarthyism....

  • Coby 2023-02-26 22:10:23

    Fuller's iconic lens language, the lens is constantly moving in space, the scene is constantly changing, and the content in the frame changes so that the meaning is highlighted, while making full use of the depth of space (high-efficiency B-level film production strategy, The number of shots has been greatly reduced), of course, there is no lack of ideological tendencies that have been attacked earlier, but the portrayal of characters is indeed the most accurate and realistic orientation in...

  • Skylar 2023-01-27 14:08:25

    Samuel Fuller x Richard Widmark. "Widwark-style" unruly hero. Impressed with the characters, especially Moe (and her...

Extended Reading

Pickup on South Street quotes

  • Moe Williams: You got any Happy Money?

    Candy: Happy Money?

    Moe Williams: Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy. What else?

  • Moe Williams: What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies!

    Skip McCoy: You waving the flag, too?

    Moe Williams: Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.

    Skip McCoy: Stop, you're breaking my heart.

    Moe Williams: Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.