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The Day of the Locust)

Frank Henenlotter

prefigure his later films’ concerns with strange institutions

author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City (Blu-ray only)

-Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and GBU Featurette Parts 1 & 2

Pickup on South Street (#224) bruce campbell The Day of the Locust)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 couriers Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against