Thieves' Highway (1949)

Directors

Jules Dassin

Cast

Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie

The story

Nico "Nick" Garcos is a veteran of World War II, who arrives, from Asia, at his family home in Fresno, California to find that his foreign-born father, who became a produce truck driver, 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, called Mike Figlia. Garcos vows revenge for his father.

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