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Highway 301 is written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André and Edmond Ryan. Music is by William Lava and photography by Carl Guthrie. Story is based on a real gang of robbers known as The Tri-State Gang, who terrorised and thieved in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
George (Steve Cochran) is the leader of a gang of bank robbers operating along Highway 301 in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. By thief standards, the rest of the gang -- which includes Robert Webber and Richard Egan -- is reasonably upstanding, but George enjoys killing. Highway 301 is a little jewel for two reasons.
Andrew L. Stone’s Highway 301 tells the true(ish) story of the “Tri-State Gang” through a semi-documentary lens; in fact, the film opens with brief statements from not one, but three state governors whose citizens were impacted by the violence (about the film, one states, “I congratulate Warner Brothers for producing it”).
George Legenza, William B. Phillips, Robert Mays, Herbie Brooks and Noyes Hinton comprise who are known as the Tri-State Gang, the three states in question being Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
Highway 301 is an American 1950 film noir written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, and starring Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André and Edmon Ryan.
Dec 2, 2009 · In its brief 80+ minutes, this film is jam-packed with suspense, unexpected bursts of violence, and steamy sexual tension. As is often the case, the magnetic Steve Cochran anchors the film with his flair for dramatic violence, and his sinister, self-destructive charm with the ladies.
