Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street if a 1953 spy film/film noir. A low-life pickpocket accidentally steals government secrets intended for a Communist spy as he's dipping a wallet out of a purse. Richard Widmark stars as the thief. Thelma Ritter and Milburn Stone also star.

Slant Magazine concludes, "This film is an amazing example of what might be called noir jazz." The Guardian calls it "masterly". DVD Talk says, "A great old film, the kind that's no longer a mainstream 'classic' but can still fill a revival house with crowds that love gutsy filmmaking and pulpy dialogue, tough-guy action and Runyonesque sentimentality."

Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 90%.