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Titolo originale: Pickup on South Street

1953
T
1h 20min

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7,6/10

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Richard Widmark and Jean Peters in Mano pericolosa (1953)

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

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Un ladro inconsapevolmente prende un messaggio destinato ad agenti nemici e diventa l'obiettivo di un anello di spionaggio comunista.Un ladro inconsapevolmente prende un messaggio destinato ad agenti nemici e diventa l'obiettivo di un anello di spionaggio comunista.Un ladro inconsapevolmente prende un messaggio destinato ad agenti nemici e diventa l'obiettivo di un anello di spionaggio comunista.

Regia
- Samuel Fuller
Sceneggiatura
- Samuel Fuller
- Dwight Taylor
Star

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,6/10

16.654

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

Regia
- Samuel Fuller
Sceneggiatura
- Samuel Fuller
- Dwight Taylor
Star

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Candidato a 1 Oscar
- 2 vittorie e 3 candidature totali

Zara
(as Willis B. Bouchey)

Milburn Stone

Detective Winoki

Parley Baer

Headquarters Communist in Chair
(non citato nei titoli originali)

George Berkeley

Undetermined Secondary Role
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Chet Brandenburg

Fight Spectator
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Virginia Carroll

Nurse
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Harry Carter

Detective Dietrich
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Heinie Conklin

Subway Passenger
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Clancy Cooper

Detective Eddie
(non citato nei titoli originali)

George Eldredge

Fenton
(non citato nei titoli originali)

John Gallaudet

Detective Lt. Campion
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Robert Haines

Library Worker
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Frank Kumagai

Lum
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Regia
- Samuel Fuller
Sceneggiatura
- Samuel Fuller
- Dwight Taylor
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The last of four films in four successive years that Thelma Ritter was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. This film follows nominations for Eva contro Eva (1950), La madre dello sposo (1951) and La dominatrice del destino (1952).

Blooper
When Joey leaves the basement after assaulting the police officer, he walks out of the shot, then a cat is obviously thrown into the frame.

Citazioni
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.

Versioni alternative
When 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.

Connessioni
Edited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)

Colonne sonore
Again
(uncredited)
Music by Lionel Newman
[love theme for Candy and Skip]

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7/10

Grifters, B-girls, secret microfilm: great ingredients for film noir...

Director Samuel Fuller concocts a brilliant visual set-up to this gritty story: cocky pickpocket unwittingly lifts some microfilm from a woman's purse; it turns out she's a courier for the Communists, and now they are both being watched by the police. The noir formula in all its 1950s glory--before the ingredients became clichés--including waterfront locales, floozies, saxophones on the soundtrack, and one hell of a climactic fistfight. Performances by Richard Widmark and Jean Peters are right on target, and the smart, sharp script is quite colorful. Fabulous Thelma Ritter received an Oscar nomination for knockout supporting role as a "professional stoolie". Exciting, atmospheric, tough as nails. *** from ****