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Plot: A down-and-out young man resorts to petty thievery to stay afloat, but the internal turmoil and guilt over his lifestyle constantly causes him to rethink his actions.
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MCT:September 26, 2008Richard Widmark and Samuel Fuller make a great team. a grand noir from the 50's with dark characters and themes that seem ahead of their time. the opening sequence, and many others that follow, command your attention.
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MCT:August 31, 2008
"pickup on south street" is samuel fuller's gritty noir interpreted in the his trademarked journalist perspect, within a disorietated world, in lack of humprey bogart's sam spade or philip marlowe. inevitably, director fuller infuses his political cynicism upon the scenario of communist apprehesion as well as the anarchic disbelief in patriotism.
richard widmark plays a pickpocket whose thievery casts great hinderance to communist conspiracy so he sinks into a target as the ultimate wanted man. it evocates the involvements of walks of life in the ghetto, such as thelma ritter's stool pidgeon who is keen to gather the sum of her final decent funeral; jean peters as the sappy girl who descends as the mistress of abusive communist agent. the usage of slangs are a hard-boiled defiance for certain audience to follow. eventually widmark vows to beat down the communist not for the sake of his devoted enthusiasm over this country but for avid sense of vegence for his beloved girlfriend who refuses to doublecross him.
"pickup on south street" might be a new breed of film noir then, and absolutely iconclastic to the classic noir heroism magnefied by humprey bogart or dick powell as the die-hard noir savior who straightens things off with un-fading mettle and belief into the righteous. the abscence of heroism is one particular trait for this flick as well as the specific indication toward fanatic maccathyism. fuller cannot help but vent his patterned reel of newspaper realism.
and also, the major star richard widmark does ignite the screen with his irreconciled paroteriat pride while thelma ritter sneers at you with her street-cred then it shatters into pieces of broken ghetto dream as she gets shot to death by the communist at last. -
MCT:June 16, 2008
A gripping noir with intense buildup and terse, explosive action perfectly crafted by Samuel Fuller. Widmark is totally badass. Excellently done.
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MCT:February 10, 2008
thelma ritter steals the show here as moe. saw her in all about eve recently and to be blunt she was the only thing that kept me awake through it (in all about eve that is). apart from ritter though the film as a whole was better than i was expecting. it's a chase around the streets of new york (it was new york right? i couldn't be sure) between a commie and a grifter with a girl thrown inbetween (jean peters) for the fun of it. peters and widmark who plays skip are on good form. never seen any of the other actresses/actors except ritter in anything else as far as i can remember. written and directed by samuel fuller who's successfully created an entertaining action-thriller here. haven't seen any of his material before... am impressed
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MCT:November 15, 2007
Momentos geniais de direção de Bresson. Um filme que ele faz uso de trilha sonora e que foge de seu rigor de som, comumente encontrado em outras obras. A cena dos batedores de carteira é uma obra prima do cinema. O filme, em momentos, perde um pouco o ritmo. Porém é um trabalho a ser visto e revisto.
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MCT:September 23, 2007Sam Fuller made his films fast, cheap and tight. In addition to containing the most heart-breakingly amazing work of Thelma Ritter's career South Street explores the world of pick-pocketing in a way that's infinitely more fun than the dour Pickpocket.
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MCT:July 25, 2007Packing Fuller's trademark breathless pace but less in your face as his other work. So okay, not great.
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MCT:March 9, 2007
Gritty noir with lots of balls what you would expect from Fuller. It can't go wrong when the protagonists are a pickpocket, a hooker and a stoolpigeon.
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MCT:January 23, 2007
One of the greatest film noir films ever. Widmark plays the cool anti-hero perfectly. Peters and Ritter played their roles wonderfully and usual good guy Kiley made a good and believable villain.
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MCT:December 10, 2006Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...
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