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  • Life at the Bottom: Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street

    03/21/2026 2:06:53 PM PDT · by Twotone · 9 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | March 21, 2026 | Rick McGinnis
    There's a clip on YouTube of director Samuel Fuller in the early '80s talking about the opening scene of his classic 1953 film noir Pickup on South Street. He would be about seventy years old at the time but he's full of energy and enthusiasm, as you would be if you were Samuel Fuller being interviewed for what I presume is French television. Fuller was and had been for decades something like a deity for French cineastes (the director had moved to France around this time) and he would never have an audience this avid anywhere else in the world....