[Susan Foreman]

'Pickup On South Street' (1953) - Pre-order available from Criterion direct for Blu-Ray $31.96 and DVD $23.96

Release date: June 29

"Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters), he finds a more spectacular haul than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. information. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier’s Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, right against Red, and passion against self-preservation. With its dazzling cast and writer-director Samuel Fuller’s signature hard-boiled repartee and raw energy, Pickup on South Street is a true film noir classic by one of America’s most passionate cinematic craftspeople."

Special Features:

• On the Blu-ray: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• On the DVD: High-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound
• New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City (Blu-ray only)
• Interview from 1989 with director Samuel Fuller, conducted by film critic Richard Schickel
• Cinéma cinémas: Fuller, a 1982 French television program in which the director discusses the making of the film
• Illustrated biographical essay on Fuller (DVD only)
• Complete Fuller poster filmography (DVD only)
• Stills galleries of photos, lobby cards, and original paintings (DVD only)
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: For the Blu-ray - An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién and a chapter from Fuller’s posthumously published 2002 autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking; For the DVD essays by Martin Scorsese and acclaimed cultural historian Luc Sante