Lightning Strikes Twice (1951 film)
1951
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A vicious gang of armed robbers, led by a psychotic killer, terrorizes the tri-state area of Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, robbing banks and payroll...
- 1 min
- 26.2K
- Craig Steves
A gang of career criminals, modeled on the real life Tri-State Gang, are terrorizing and robbing banks and payrolls in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. George, the gang's leader, is a cold killer who does not distinguish between armed guards and any of the group's molls that cross him.
Highway 301: Directed by Andrew L. Stone. With William P. Lane Jr., John S. Battle, W. Kerr Scott, Steve Cochran. Led by a psychopathic killer, a vicious gang of armed robbers terrorizes Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, robbing banks and payrolls and murdering anyone who might identify them.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Andrew L. Stone
- 1950-12-01
A gang of well-dressed armed robbers, unimaginatively dubbed the Tri-State Outfit by police, go on a crime spree across three states. The opening bit with the real governors of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina giving speeches about law & order will have you rolling your eyes.
Mar 21, 2020 · 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.
- 83 min
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.
With the support of Warner’s high production values, Steve Cochran shines as the beastly, psychopathic ringleader George Legenza, who makes Cochrane’s Eddie Roman in The Chase (1946) look like a pussycat, and who, from time to time, gets bored of killing innocents and turns his gun on his own women. The most suspenseful sequences, in fact ...
