Pickup on South Street (1953)

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1. how sad that they don't make movies like this anymore

2. Peters…She really got bounced around in this one.. Former Mrs.Howard Hughes.

3. I wonder how this movie did in the box office back then!❤ very well made movie!!

4. Very good film and acting, thanks.

5. Great movie. Poor Moe, Thelma Ritters was really an awesome actress. And Jean Peters was super attractive with her sexy looks and accent. Good times when even a pickpocket in New York wore a fedora.

6. I love how Joey slides down the subway stairs face down and his chin hits every step!

7. Another great performance by Thelma Ritter just as she had in Rear Window.

8. That was Parley Baer in his brief scene as one of the reds.

9. I love the way Lightning Louie picks up the cash with the chops sticks he uses eating his Chinese food(chow fun)!

10. It’s not likely that there was a black clerk at the library even in the early 1950s.

11. Excellent movie!!!

12. What a good movie, watched it may be 30 years ago. The actress who played Mo is a fantastic actress, I think she was in that classic movie ' How the West was won'. Always played the part of the wise older woman. Enjoy, they just can't make movies like this anymore.

13. 0:12

14. Why did the cops and criminals did not pick him up and took the film from him by torturing or taking his balls one at a time…

15. If that film was so terribly important, a matter of national security, why didn't the G men just put the squeeze on Richard Widmark?
    In the police precinct, they could've simply beat it out of him. Remember, it was a matter of national security. No holds barred.
    33:57 " Locking you up isn't gonna help. " ( But maybe beating you up would. )

16. Great movie

17. Great Noir…you won’t be wasting your time. A bit artsy at times witn camera angles, but Well done .

18. Excellent film. Absolutely love Richard Widmark and Thelma Ritter. The only scene I would have liked to see was Jean and Richard visiting Mo's grave site at the end.💗💗💗💗💗

19. Sam's films were always like a sock in the mouth. Not even the dames escaped a beating. Great mobile camera work and fantastic performances all round.

20. America Archive Preservation 2002!

21. Great movie. Good fight scenes.

22. Holy moly, it's a real dandy!

23. At 44:17 the always great supporting actor Parley Baer, from communist agent to Mayor of Mayberry.

24. Mericans dressed nice once upon a time

25. Good movie!!!!
    ❤ Richard Widmark ❤

26. Superb movie! An excellent cast all at the top of their game. The cinematography was gorgeous, a tight story pitched within the dreadful McCarthy years. Richard Widmark is always riveting but Thelma Ritter was also fabulous.

27. Thelma Ritter, Mo, is always fantastic. And Jean Peters has a scintillating Vivien-esque beauty.

28. Oh, for a return to a time when most Americans recognized the dangers of Communism.

29. C L A S S I C !!!!!

30. Checked the channel for more D.B., and what do I find but one of my favorite movies of all time? Thanks. 

    Moe plays a 78 recorded by Maurice Chevalier, supposedly a collaborator with Nazis in occupied France.

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