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Review of by Geoffrey O'brien for The New York Review of Books — 12 Aug 2018

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It took a director with Samuel Fuller's oblique angle of approach to find a vein of poetic anarchism in the conformist heart of the 1950s police-procedural melodrama.

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This review of Pickup on South Street (1953) was written by and published by The New York Review of Books on 12 Aug 2018.

Pickup on South Street has generally received very positive reviews.

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