The Problem here is the plot. Supopsedly theres a bunch of communist agents who want to steal government secrets. The police and the FBI are aware of this and in the beginning of the movie they are following a woman who is known to belong or be associated with this group of foreign agents. THis woman is supposedly completely unaware that her boyfriend is one of the communist agents and so she has noreason whatsoever to be careful with who she associates with and who she meets. Here starts the main problem. The FBI is shown to follow this woman but is not shown to follow her boyfriend who is the main suspect. This guy is shown to have meetings with other agents but the police and the FBI are nowhere to be seen when these meetings take place even though they know the guy is a spy. For some reason the entire story revolves around apickpocket that accidentaly gets involved in this situation. The guy steals afilm and hides it in a shack where he lives but when the police search his shack fail to find it which is completely ridiculous. Widmark who had specialized playing losers is miscast in this movie and the romance with jean Peters doesnt ring true for a second.
Review of Pickup on South Street
