Noir-vember Week 1 Pickup on South Street (1953)

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Join us for Noir-vember! WEEK ONE: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)

Noir-vember is a mini noir film festival at the Mt Lebanon Public Library over three weeks in November.

Come to one, or come to multiple screenings.

Pickup on South Street (1953) Directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. In this gritty noir with an espionage angle, a pickpocket accidentally intercepts a message meant for foreign agents and becomes the target of a Communist spy ring. This film earned Thelma Ritter an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.