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Highways by Night (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
65 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1942 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Peter Godfrey

Written By:
Clarence Budington Kelland
Lynn Root

Actors:
Richard Carlson ..... Tommy Van Steel
Jane Randolph ..... Peggy Fogarty
Jane Darwell ..... Grandma Fogarty
Barton MacLane ..... Leo Bronson
Ray Collins ..... Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
Gordon Jones ..... 'Footsy' Fogarty
Renee Godfrey ..... Ellen Cromwell
Iris Adrian ..... Blonde Chorine
Jack La Rue ..... Johnny Lieber, Gangster
John McGuire ..... James 'Duke' Wellington
George Cleveland ..... Judkins - Hotel Manager
Marten Lamont ..... Reggie
James Seay ..... Westbrook, the Man with Trucks
Cliff Clark ..... Police Captain James
Paul Fix ..... Gabby

Synopsis:

When his two-fisted Uncle Ben Steel taunts him with his inability to get out and earn his own living if he had to, Tommy Van Steel, a rich young theorist, takes the challenge. He gets mixed up in an attempted gangster killing, escapes and stumbles into a job with the Fogarty family - a grandmother, a brother, Footsy, and a sister, Peggy - who are running a small trucking business. Peggy Fogarty takes his education in hand. A racketeer named Bronson is trying to force the Fogartys out of business and Tommy learns that he is mixed up with the gangsters who tried to kill him. Posing as a gangster himself, Tommy gains Bronson's confidence and deftly lifts a big trucking contract for the Fogartys from under Bronson's nose, intending to use the Van Steel, his own company, trucks to help out. Bronson learns of the deception, and plans on killing Tommy and wiping out the Fogarty business at the same time.

Rich, nerdish Tommy Van Steel seldom leaves his home gadget workshop, but somehow has become engaged to socialite Ellen Cromwell, who treats him badly. Innocently becoming drunk, Tommy takes to heart his Uncle Ben's advice to sow some wild oats, and soon he is involved with chorus girls, gangsters, and a troubled mom-and-pop trucking company.

An unworldly inventor finds romance and adventure.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 June, 2014.

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