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THIEVES HIGHWAY (1949) "Rackets Ride The Roads!" A war-veteran-turned-truck driver Nico "Nick" Garcos arrives at home to find that his foreign-born father, a fruit farmer, has lost his legs and was forced to sell his truck. He learns that his father was crippled at the hands of an unscrupulous produce dealer in San Francisco, Mike Figlia (Lee J ...
Jan 31, 2005 · Like the movie’s rattletrap trucks lurching down the highway as they carry way-too-heavy loads, the characters in Jules Dassin’s brilliantly volatile Thieves’ Highway struggle under psychological and moral baggage until they can lay their burdens down. Working from a novel and script by A.I. Bezzerides, Dassin made this swift, fluid melodrama in 1949, after Brute Force and The Naked City ...
Richard Conte travels on "Thieves Highway," a 1949 film also starring Lee J. Cobb, Valentina Cortese, and Barbara Lawrence. Directed by Jules Dassin, it's the story of Nick Garcos (Conte), who returns from the war to find his father has lost his legs in a car accident. It wasn't just any car accident.
Feb 1, 2005 · Thieves' Highway is directed by Jules Dassin and adapted to screenplay by A. I. Bezzerides from his own novel Thieves' Market. It stars Richard Conte, Valentine Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie and Millard Mitchell. Music is by Alfred Newman and cinematography by Norbert Brodine.
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Dassin swathes Thieves' Highway's long-haul boys in claustrophobic compositions and menacing darkness. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 19, 2005. Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com. Dassin's ...
Shot in just 30 days, Thieves' Highway was released in October 1949. It was based on the novel Thieves Market by A. I. Bezzerides who also wrote the screenplay. The storyline moves from a rural apple orchard to San Francisco's seedy (pun intended) Produce Market. This well-acted and entertaining film noir by director Jules Dassin examines greed ...
