Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Alex da Silva Richard Conte (Nick) returns home after serving with the military and he brings gifts from all over the world for his mother, father and girlfriend. They don't go down well, though. His father Morris Carnovsky (Yanko) has lost both his legs in a trucking accident and has no need for a pair of Chinese slippers. Conte sets out for revenge for those responsible for his father's condition. It involves teaming up with trucker Millard Mitchell (Ed) and selling apples to market trader and bully boy Lee J Cobb (Mike).I was a bit wary of this film when it started. A film about trucks. Not my thing. However, this is more than just a film about trucks. But it is unbelievable in parts and the main examples of this come with Conte's encounters with gangster Lee J. I'm afraid Conte would have been disposed of pretty sharpish and there is no way he would have got away with such an antagonistic manner towards the king of the thugs. Even in the final climax, Lee J is seen as a cowering wreck when face-to-face with Conte. It doesn't make sense.My favourite in the cast are street girl Valentina Cortesa (Rica) and fellow trucker Jack Oakie (Slob). They both deliver funny lines and give the most notable performances. They win the acting honours for me. I usually find Oakie an irritant and groan if I see him on any cast list. However, he has won me around with this performance. His character has a conscience - sort of!

tomgillespie2002 Thieves' Highway was the penultimate American film director Jules Dassin made before finding himself banished from Hollywood and placed on the infamous Blacklist. Informed in 1948 of his fate but handed enough time to squeeze out Night and the City (1950) for Fox, Dassin was just one of many cinema giants cut down in their prime (although he would go on to make the masterpiece Rififi in France in 1955), and the bruising film noirs he made during this period were some of the finest the genre has ever seen. Thieves' Highway's world of the produce market may not seen the ideal setting for American's own brand of stylish brooding, but this is one of the toughest and darkest noirs out there.Nico 'Nick' Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home from the war to find his father crippled after a road accident which resulted in the loss of his legs. After demanding the truth, Nick learns that the crash occurred after his father made a deal with unscrupulous market dealer Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb) and was run off the road. Seeking vengeance, Nick first of all demands back the truck his father sold to Ed Kinney (Millard Mitchell), but instead ends up going into business with him on a load of in-demand Golden Delicious apples. Following a 36-hour truck drive, Nick arrives in San Francisco and almost immediately find himself at odds with Figlia. Exhausted, Nick is cared for by good-heated prostitute Rica (Valentina Cortese) while Figlia shrewdly plunders his stock.Cortese's performance is the beating heart of the movie. A well- rounded, decent person at odds with the shifty-eyed criminals that pepper the marketplace, she is magnificent in the role, a shining light in the midst of an entourage of shady characters. This includes Conte's lead, who while eager to do the right thing at first, soon sees terrible, naive decisions force him into desperate measures. The produce market, with its battered, growling trucks and beaten-down drivers, provides a perfect noir setting. You can hear the cogs of capitalism and industry grind as the underpaid blue- collared types risk life and limb for the chance of a payday. It's littered with the same sense of pessimism and cynicism that made Dassin's Brute Force (1947) such a powerful movie, and will leave you feel somewhat beaten down by the time it's over. American noir at its toughest.

christopher-underwood Absolutely sensational thriller from Jules Dassin and starring Richard Conte on top form. One would not have imagined that a film revolving around the apple trade would be even the slightest bit interesting but this is a stunner. The tension is so extreme at times that the film is barely watchable and the humour at others so broad we think of Laurel and Hardy. The script from A J Bezzerides based upon his original book is articulate, intelligent, funny and political and with such blistering dialogue and faultless direction and camera work, including trademark montages, this movie never pauses for breath. We even get sizzling non explicit sex scenes courtesy of the lead and an equally stunning performance from Valentina Cortesa. Just wait for the late scene when the aforementioned lady declares in full sarcastic mode, 'Aren't women wonderful'. I gasped and you will too - see it now!

Lechuguilla Nick (Richard Conte), a young WWII veteran returning to his roots in California, seeks revenge against Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb), a greedy, cigar-chomping produce buyer in San Francisco who injured Nick's working-class father, a trucker who can no longer haul apples from California orchards to market.The plot follows Nick as he sets out on his revenge mission. In typical noir fashion, it's a hostile universe Nick enters, as he teams up with another wildcat trucker in an uneasy alliance. He must deal with highway fatigue, mechanical problems, thugs, and manipulative people along the way. Money is the symbol of evil that underlies the story, and Nick's narrative journey highlights the peril of trusting others.The film's structure starts out familial and normal, but transitions to a dark, menacing world of oncoming headlights, a produce market with its noise and clutter, wet brick streets at night, and cheap, seedy interiors. With strong side lighting, and a maze of light and shadow, combined with high, wide-angle camera shots and explicit framing, the B&W cinematography conveys a sinister, uninviting world typical of the noir genre. There's also a distortion of time, as Nick's not-so-excellent adventure in San Francisco unfolds through one seemingly endless night.Richard Conte gives a really fine performance, as does Lee J. Cobb, and Valentina Cortese, who plays the femme fatale whom Nick meets at Figlia's market. My only major complaint is the inclusion of several truckers other than Nick, which muddles the story a tad.Mostly, "Thieves' Highway" paints a grim picture of life among blue-collar workers during the 1940s, trying to make a buck amid harsh conditions and greedy, manipulative scoundrels. Thematically proletariat, it's comparable to the work of writers such as John Steinbeck and films like "The Grapes of Wrath". The film offers genuine drama, tension, excellent acting, and good noir visuals.