Un pickpocket dérobe sans le vouloir un message destiné à des espions ennemis et devient la cible d'un réseau d'espionnage communiste.Un pickpocket dérobe sans le vouloir un message destiné à des espions ennemis et devient la cible d'un réseau d'espionnage communiste.Un pickpocket dérobe sans le vouloir un message destiné à des espions ennemis et devient la cible d'un réseau d'espionnage communiste.
- Nommé pour 1 Oscar
- 2 victoires et 3 nominations au total
- Zara
- (as Willis B. Bouchey)
- Headquarters Communist in Chair
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- Undetermined Secondary Role
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- Fight Spectator
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- Nurse
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- Detective Dietrich
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- Subway Passenger
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- Detective Eddie
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- Fenton
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- Detective Lt. Campion
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- Library Worker
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- Lum
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Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe last of four films in four successive years that Thelma Ritter was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. This film follows nominations for Ève... (1950), La mère du marié (1951) and Un refrain dans mon coeur (1952).
- GaffesWhen Joey leaves the basement after assaulting the police officer, he walks out of the shot, then a cat is obviously thrown into the frame.
- Citations
Moe Williams: Listen, Mister. When I come in here tonight, you seen an old clock runnin' down. I'm tired. I'm through. Happens to everybody sometime. It'll happen to you too, someday. With me it's a little bit of everything. Backaches and headaches. I can't sleep nights. It's so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed and walk the streets. Climb the stairs. I go right on doin' it! Well, what am I gonna do, knock it? I have to go on makin' a livin'... so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin' fer if I gotta do bus'ness with crumbs like you.
- Versions alternativesWhen the movie was released in France, the French dubbing replaced the communists spying with drug dealing to avoid political controversy. No English print with subtitles went in circulation. The French title "Le port de la drogue" could be translated by "Pier of Drug". The original version was released several years after.
- ConnexionsEdited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)
'Pickup on South Street' is not a masterpiece and there are many far better film noirs out there. That is in no way knocking the film, because 'Pickup on South Street' still manages to be very interesting and with the right amount of entertainment and grit. As well as being very well made and acted. If there was more subtlety and if one relationship was handled more realistically, it would have been an even better film than it was.
Do agree that the romance is far too rushed, with it having very little time to develop from feeling the complete opposite to begin with and then it happens just like that by not too realistic means.
The film has been criticised many times too for laying it on too thick with the quite unforgiving politics. That is very understandable and will agree with the criticism, as it is handled with very little subtlety with it being persistently referred to and some of it was not necessary (some might find it "dated" as well).
However, 'Pickup on South Street's' photography is rich in style and atmosphere, the eerie grit of the lighting too adding hugely to the suspense. Fuller's direction is well judged and gives the film plenty of momentum while with breathing space too. The music is slinky at times and haunting in others. The script is not perfect, but is mostly very smart and tautly written.
Similarly the story is always compelling, the gritty atmosphere beautifully handled and the suspense biting the nails when appropriate. Was surprised at how it pulled no punches and the uncompromising nature wasn't taken too far, the climax being the biggest example of this. The best thing about 'Pickup on South Street' is the acting, while Widmark is a menacing presence, Jean Peters charming and Murvyn Vye suitably caustic it is Ritter that makes the biggest impression. Her character is the most interesting and likeable and she is quite touching in it.
Overall, very good. 8/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- 5 déc. 2019
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Pickup on South Street
- Lieux de tournage
- West 6th Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(Candy on the street after getting off the subway at the beginning of the film)
- Société de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 780 000 $US (estimé)
- Durée1 heure 20 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1