Lighting the Pipes

LTP Noir: Pickup on South Street (1953)


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LTP Noir returns, this time to the mean streets of Samuel Fuller’s New York City at the height of the McCarthy era. Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter star in "Pickup on South Street", a brutish and caustic yarn where common criminals are considered heroes compared to those stinking Reds! Collect your tickets, friends, and hop aboard as Josh steadies the train through this underrated film's tracks and turns, with stops along the way through Fuller's prolific career in journalism and Hollywood.

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