Pickup on South Street (1953)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Escritores:

Samuel Fuller (screenplay)
Dwight Taylor (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 junio 1953 (USA)

Género:

Cine Negro | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

How the law took a chance on a B-girl... and won!

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Communist | Purse | Subway | Microfilm | Pickpocket

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Grifters, B-girls, secret microfilm: great ingredients for film noir...

Reparto

Richard Widmark	...	Skip McCoy
Jean Peters	...	Candy
Thelma Ritter	...	Moe Williams
Murvyn Vye	...	Captain Dan Tiger
Richard Kiley	...	Joey
Willis Bouchey	...	Zara (as Willis B. Bouchey)
Milburn Stone	...	Detective Winoki

También conocida como:

Blaze of Glory (USA) (working title)
Pickpocket (USA) (working title)
Manos peligrosas (Spain) [es]

Duración:

80 min | Spain:75 min (DVD)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Germany:16 (DVD rating) (2004) | Australia:PG | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #16197)

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

Shot in 20 days.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Skip and Joey fight in the subway station, they are fighting in a cleared area near the ticket office and then the next two shots show them confined by exit railings near the newspaper stand and then the next shot cuts back to the open area.

Citas:

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

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en American Gun (2005)

Banda de Sonido:

Again

Grifters, B-girls, secret microfilm: great ingredients for film noir...

Director Samuel Fuller concocts a brilliant visual set-up: cocky pickpocket unwittingly lifts some microfilm from a woman's purse; it turns out she's a courier for the Communists, and now she and the grifter are being watched by the police. The Film Noir Formula is all its glory--before the ingredients became clichés--including waterfront locales, floozies, saxophones on the soundtrack, and one hell of a climactic fistfight. Performances by Richard Widmark and Jean Peters are right on target, and the smart, sharp script is quite colorful. Fabulous Thelma Ritter received an Oscar nomination for knockout supporting role as a "professional stoolie". Exciting, atmospheric, tough as nails. *** from ****