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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. The film starts with comments from then-governors of ...
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
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.
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Summaries. 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. During the late 1940s, a gang of armed-robbers, known as The Tri-State Gang, terrorizes banks and payroll-vans in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
Filmmaker Andrew Stone was always a staunch believer in realism at all costs. Thus it was that much of Highway 301 was lensed on a genuine (and very busy) interstate highway. Based on fact, the film recounts the bloody exploits of the notorious "Tri-State Gang," which preyed upon truck drivers.
Highway 301 is cops-&-robbers pure and simple: half trigger-happy bank robbers versus dogged detectives, half woman-trapped-with-ruthless-crooks suspense. In terms of plot and presentation, this is pretty standard fade that’s elevated by its mean punchy pulp, moments of shockingly brutal violence, and effective tension in the latter sections.
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