Pickup on South Street
Sep 25, 2005
(Samuel Fuller, USA, 1953, 35mm, 80 min.)
One of our largest retrospectives was 1999's GUNSHOT FOR ACTION: The Films of Samuel Fuller in 1999, named for Fuller's notorious caprice on set of beginning each scene with a gunshot.
Rife with the stifling paranoia of Cold War America, this noir thriller of international intrigue centers on a master pickpocket (Richard Widmark) who stumbles into something much graver than petty theft when working his magic on the subway.