January 27, 2009 (XVIII:3) Samuel Fuller PICKUP on SOUTH STREET (1953, 80 Min)
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January 27, 2009 (XVIII:3) Samuel Fuller PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953, 80 min) Directed and written by Samuel Fuller Based on a story by Dwight Taylor Produced by Jules Schermer Original Music by Leigh Harline Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald Richard Widmark...Skip McCoy Jean Peters...Candy Thelma Ritter...Moe Williams Murvyn Vye...Captain Dan Tiger Richard Kiley...Joey Willis Bouchey...Zara Milburn Stone...Detective Winoki Parley Baer...Headquarters Communist in chair SAMUEL FULLER (August 12, 1912, Worcester, Massachusetts— October 30, 1997, Hollywood, California) has 53 writing credits and 32 directing credits. Some of the films and tv episodes he directed were Street of No Return (1989), Les Voleurs de la nuit/Thieves After Dark (1984), White Dog (1982), The Big Red One (1980), "The Iron Horse" (1966-1967), The Naked Kiss True Story of Jesse James (1957), Hilda Crane (1956), The View (1964), Shock Corridor (1963), "The Virginian" (1962), "The from Pompey's Head (1955), Broken Lance (1954), Hell and High Dick Powell Show" (1962), Merrill's Marauders (1962), Water (1954), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), Pickup on Underworld U.S.A. (1961), The Crimson Kimono (1959), South Street (1953), Titanic (1953), Niagara (1953), What Price Verboten! (1959), Forty Guns (1957), Run of the Arrow (1957), Glory (1952), O. Henry's Full House (1952), Viva Zapata! (1952), China Gate (1957), House of Bamboo (1955), Hell and High Panic in the Streets (1950), Pinky (1949), It Happens Every Water (1954), Pickup on South Street (1953), Park Row (1952), Spring (1949), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), Yellow Sky Fixed Bayonets! (1951), The Steel Helmet (1951), The Baron of (1948), The Street with No Name (1948), Call Northside 777 Arizona (1950), and I Shot Jesse James (1949). (1948), My Darling Clementine (1946), The Big Noise (1944), Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942), The Postman Didn't Ring (1942), The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942), and Charlie Chan in Rio (1941). JOSEPH MACDONALD (December 15, 1906, Mexico City, Mexico—May 26, 1968, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) has 74 cinematography credits. He was nominated for RICHARD WIDMARK (December 26, 1914, Sunrise, Minnesota— three best cinematography Oscars: The Sand Pebbles (1966), Pepe March 24, 2008, Roxbury, Connecticut) has 75 acting credits, (1959), and The Young Lions (1958). Some of his other films are among them True Colors (1991), A Gathering of Old Men (1987), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Alvarez Kelly (1966), Rio Conchos Against All Odds (1984), National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (1964), Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964), The Carpetbaggers (1982), The Swarm (1978), Coma (1978), The Domino Principle (1964), Flight from Ashiya (1964), Kings of the Sun (1963), The (1977), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Murder on the Orient List of Adrian Messenger (1963), 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962), Express (1974), "Madigan" (1972-1973), Death of a Gunfighter Taras Bulba (1962), Walk on the Wild Side (1962), The Gallant (1969), Madigan (1968), Alvarez Kelly (1966), The Bedford Hours (1960), Warlock (1959), Ten North Frederick (1958), Will Incident (1965), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), How the West Was Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), A Hatful of Rain (1957), The Won (1962), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Alamo (1960), Fuller—PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET—2 Warlock (1959), The Tunnel of Love (1958), The Law and Jake "Biography" (1995-1998), "Picket Fences" (1992-1994), "The Wade (1958), Saint Joan (1957), Garden of Evil (1954), Hell and Ray Bradbury Theater" (1992), Howard the Duck (1986), "The High Water (1954), Take the High Ground! (1953), Pickup on Twilight Zone" (1986), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985), South Street (1953), Destination Gobi (1953), Red Skies of "The Thorn Birds" (1983), Jesus (1979), The New Media Bible: Montana (1952), Halls of Montezuma (1950), No Way Out (1950), The Gospel According to St. Luke (1979), Looking for Mr. Panic in the Streets (1950), Night and the City (1950), Slattery's Goodbar (1977), "Hawaii Five-O" (1976), The Little Prince Hurricane (1949), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), Yellow Sky (1974), "Cannon" (1974), "Gunsmoke" (1970-1973), "Medical (1948), Road House (1948), and Kiss of Death (1947). He Center" (1971), "Bonanza" (1970), "The Mod Squad" (1970), received only one Oscar nomination—for best supporting actor as "Slattery's People" (1964), "The Defenders" (1961-1964), "The the giggling psychopath Tommy Yudo in Kiss of Death. Nurses" (1964), "Ben Casey" (1964), "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1963), "Dr. Kildare" (1961), "The United States Steel JEAN PETERS (October 15, 1926, Canton, Ohio—October 13, Hour" (1953-1961), "Playhouse 90" (1957-1958), The Power of 2000, Carlsbad, California) has only 23 acting credits, among the Resurrection (1958), Spanish Affair (1957), "Studio One" them: "Murder, She Wrote" (1988), Winesburg, Ohio (1973), A (1951-1957), The Phoenix City Story (1955), "General Electric Man Called Peter (1955), Broken Lance (1954), Apache (1954), Theater" (1955), Blackboard Jungle (1955), "Campbell Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Pickup on South Street Playhouse" (1954), "Kraft Television Theatre" (1954), "The (1953), Niagara (1953), Lure of the Wilderness (1952), Wait Till Revlon Mirror Theater" (1953), Pickup on South Street (1953) the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952), Viva Zapata! (1952), Anne of the Eight Iron Men (1952), "Suspense" (1950-1952), The Sniper Indies (1951), Take Care of My Little Girl (1951), As Young as (1952), and "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1950). You Feel (1951), Love That Brute (1950), It Happens Every Spring (1949), Deep Waters (1948), and Captain from Castile MILBURN STONE ( July 5, 1904, Burrton, Kansas—June 12, 1980, (1947). La Jolla, California) appeared in 166 films and TV series, some of which were "Gunsmoke" (1955-1975), "Climax!" (1958), Smoke THELMA RITTER (February 14, 1905, Brooklyn, New York— Signal (1955), White Feather (1955), The Long Gray Line (1955), February 5, 1969, New York) has 42 acting credits. She was Black Tuesday (1954), Siege at Red River (1954), Arrowhead nominated for six best supporting actress Oscars: Birdman of (1953), Second Chance (1953), Pickup on South Street (1953), Alcatraz (1962), Pillow Talk (1959), Pickup on South Street The Sun Shines Bright (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953), The (1953), With a Song in My Heart (1952), The Mating Season Savage (1952), "Dragnet" (1952), The Atomic City (1952), The (1951), and All About Eve (1950). Some of her other films were Racket (1951), Roadblock (1951), Leathernecks (1951), What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968), The Incident (1967), "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" (1951), Operation Pacific For Love or Money (1963), How the West Was Won (1962), (1951), Branded (1950), The Fireball (1950), Snow Dog (1950), "Wagon Train" (1962), The Misfits (1961), "General Electric No Man of Her Own (1950), Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949), Theater" (1960), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Proud and Train to Alcatraz (1948), Cass Timberlane (1947), The Michigan Profane (1956), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1956), Lucy Gallant Kid (1947), Her Adventurous Night (1946), The Spider Woman (1955), "Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1955), Rear Window Strikes Back (1946), The Daltons Ride Again (1945), The Royal (1954), The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953), Titanic (1953), As Mounted Rides Again (1945), The Frozen Ghost (1945), Enemy Young as You Feel (1951), The Mating Season (1951), I'll Get By Bacteria (1945), Moon Over Las Vegas (1944), Hat Check Honey (1950), City Across the River (1949), A Letter to Three Wives (1944), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943), Captive Wild (1949), and Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Woman (1943), Police Bullets (1942), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Death Valley Outlaws (1941), The Great Train Robbery (1941), MURVYN VYE (July 15, 1913, Quincy, Massachusetts—August The Great Plane Robbery (1940), Nick Carter, Master Detective 17, 1976, Pompano Beach, Florida) has 89 acting credits, (1939), Sky Patrol (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Paroled including "Gentle Ben" (1967), "The Defenders" (1964), "The from the Big House (1938), Wives Under Suspicion (1938), Virginian" (1963), "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1963), "The Lucy Federal Bullets (1937), Blazing Barriers (1937), Rose Bowl Show" (1962), "Wagon Train" (1960-1962),"The Untouchables" (1936), China Clipper (1936), The Milky Way (1936), The (1961-1962), The George Raft Story (1961), "The Rifleman" Fighting Marines (1935), and Ladies Crave Excitement (1935). (1960), "Bonanza" (1960), "Maverick" (1959), Al Capone (1959), "77 Sunset Strip" (1959), "Perry Mason" (1959), Rally 'Round the SAM FULLER from World Film Directors, V. II. Ed . John Flag, Boys! (1958), "Studio One" (1950-1958), "Have Gun - Will Wakeman. The H.W. Wilson Co., NY, 1988. Travel" (1957), The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956), "Damon Runyon Theater" (1955), "General Electric Theater" (1955), Black American director, scenarist, and producer, born in Worcester, Horse Canyon (1954), River of No Return (1954), Pickup on Massachusetts. and grew up there and in New York City, where South Street (1953), Destination Gobi (1953), Road to Bali his family later moved. He was a small, pugnacious, and street- (1952), "Lights Out" (1951-1952),"The Philco Television wise child who at the age of eleven became a stentorian hawker of Playhouse" (1952), "Lux Video Theatre" (1951), A Connecticut newspapers—he says he “learned early that it’s not the headline Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), and Golden Earrings that counts but how hard you shout it,” and his films show that he (1947). never forgot that lesson. At thirteen Fuller quit school to work as a copyboy on RICHARD KILEY (March 31, 1922, Chicago, Illinois—March 5, the New York Journal, where two years later he became personal 1999, Warwick, New York) has 135 acting credits, some of which copyboy to Hearst’s crusading editor Arthur Brisbane. When are Nice Shot (2001), Blue Moon (1999), Patch Adams (1998), Brisbane quarreled with his boss and left, Fuller moved for a time Fuller—PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET—3 to the New York Graphic and then, in 1928, joined the San Diego and the target of ambitious young gunmen.