"I'll drive you back in a hearse..."
On a crowded subway, Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) picks a girls purse , and unknowingly takes some top secret microfilm destined for a Communist agent. Candy (Jean Peters), the girl, tells her ex-boyfriend, who she was doing a favour for. He and the FBI, who were watching the girl, are both determined to discover who the pick pocket is, and recover the goods. Then the police bring in Moe Williams (Thelma Ritter), an informer, who fingers McCoy...and the chase is on.
A stone cold classic; a gritty spy thriller, mixing hard-nosed cops, low life crims, and Communist spys, duking it out on the New York waterfront. Fuller used the reds under the beds plot mearly as a framework on which he hung a story concentrating on the participants lives, their decisions and the subsequent repercussions. Ritter was Oscar nominated for her role in this.
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