{"id":30070,"date":"2022-06-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30070"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:43:24","slug":"thieves-highway-1949-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30070","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thieves&#8217; Highway&#8221; (1949) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062722zview_thieveshighway.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thieves&#8217; Highway <\/strong><\/em>(1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules Dassin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>A. I. Bezzerides<\/strong> based on his novel <em>Thieves&#8217; Market<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese,<\/strong> <strong>Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Joseph Pevney\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Jules Dassin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Rackets Ride The Roads!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nick Garcos (Conte) returns home from the war with plans to marry his girl and start a business.\u00a0 When Nick learns that his father, a trucker, was crippled due to a crooked produce dealer named Mike Figlia (Cobb), Nick decides to get revenge.\u00a0 Nick underestimates Figlia and realizes he&#8217;s in over his head too late&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Thieves&#8217; Highway<\/em> is another excellent film that I might have missed if not for Eddie Mueller and TCM.\u00a0 Richard Conte is excellent as the honest, headstrong son looking to avenge his father.\u00a0 Lee J. Cobb presents just the right amount of attitude playing the smug, tough (yet truly cowardly) dirty businessman.\u00a0 It was humorous that everyone knew what a creep Figla was, but they had to deal with him.\u00a0 Jackie Oakie provides some comedy relief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If there was any nit I would pick, it would be the love subplot.\u00a0 Nick seems ready to switch his allegiance pretty quickly. And just as fast we learn that his fianc\u00e9 loves money\/security more than Nick.\u00a0 The subplot does provide a fun scene with Nick talking on the phone to his girl in a crowded bar full of men ready to join in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Thieves&#8217; Highway<\/em> was a fun ride and it earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062722zview_thieveshighway2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thieves&#8217; Highway (1949) Director:\u00a0 Jules Dassin Screenplay by: \u00a0A. I. Bezzerides based on his novel Thieves&#8217; Market Starring:\u00a0 Richard Conte,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30071,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30070\/revisions\/30071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}