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The hustle and bustle of a vibrant San Francisco produce market is the unusual setting for much of Jules Dassin’s Thieves Highway, which stars Richard Conte as Nick Garcos, a war veteran seeking revenge on the shady wholesalers who robbed and disabled his immigrant father Yanko (Morris Carnovsky), a fruit hauler in Fresno.
The result slots sleazy eroticism and rigorous action seamlessly together into a high-grade trucking melo. Nothing more, but nothing less, which in the '40s was the most triumphant kind of ...
Savant wishes that Thieves' Highway were perfect, but it isn't. As Jules Dassin (now in his 90s) explains in his interview, after he left the picture Darryl F. Zanuck reshot the ending. It's one of the worst examples of movie-futzing on record. 2. Nico has lost his money, his apples, and his partner.
19 de dez. de 2019 · Richard Conte; Lee J. Cobb; Valentina Cortesahttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
- 90 min
- 6,6K
- Legolas Greenleaf -Deceased
THIEVES' HIGHWAY, screen play by Z. I. Bezzerides, based on his novel, "Thieves' Market"; directed by Jules Dassin; produced by Robert Bassler for Twentieth Century-Fox.
13 de fev. de 2005 · While Thieves’ Highway’s superficially upbeat ending (reshot, against the filmmakers’ wishes, by Fox chief Darryl Zanuck) might prevent it from being categorized as a genuine noir, Jules Dassin’s 1949 melodrama about long-haul truckers—the director’s final (and finest) film made in America before the House Un-American Committee exiled him to Europe—is nonetheless a bleak portrait ...
