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Palm Theater - SLO Film Center
(1953)
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-sex worker Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.