Pickup on South Street (Criterion Collection)

Pickup on South Street (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 17, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Total Count: 35

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,398
Cold War anxiety merely heightens the already-combustible fabric of everyday America in Samuel Fuller's two-fisted masterpiece Full Review
CinePassion
Dec 22, 2014
Rating: 3.5/4 -- While applauding the patriotism of his low-lifes, Fuller powerfully evokes a '50s world of brutality, compromise and redemption. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Feb 5, 2019
Fuller's pugnacious direction and his gutter-up view of city life romanticize both the criminal code of honor and the jangling paranoia of global plots; his hard-edged long takes depict underworld cruelty with reportorial wonder ... Full Review
New Yorker
May 25, 2015
Rating: 4/4 -- Samuel Fuller's a master of unpretentious hot-house poetry, and that theoretical contradiction of terms gives one an idea of the irresolvable, elegantly compact flourishes that abound in his films. Full Review
Slant Magazine
May 25, 2015
It took a director with Samuel Fuller's oblique angle of approach to find a vein of poetic anarchism in the conformist heart of the 1950s police-procedural melodrama. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 13, 2018
Sam Fuller's explosive pulp classic, a red-menace thriller, pitched near hysteria from start to finish….Definitive Fuller, definitive noir.
Uncut
Sep 1, 2004
Insanely slangy, deliriously hard-boiled noir... Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Mar 7, 2019

Product Description:

A skid row pickpocket acquires a top-secret microfilm. He stumbles onto a plot to sell military secrets and is now the target in a world of intrigue and espionage.

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  • UPC: 715515015028
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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