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The film centers around brutal conditions in a prison of the Southern United States. Chain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship. Duke Ellis is the most influential inmate among them.
Hell's Highway: Directed by Rowland Brown, John Cromwell. With Richard Dix, Rochelle Hudson, Tom Brown, C. Henry Gordon. Chain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship, causing Duke Ellis to mastermind a mass riot.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rowland Brown, John Cromwell
- 1932-09-23
May 12, 2024 · The prisoners in the gang are forced to build the "Freeway of Freedom" so that their warden can be punished under his brutal leadership, causing Duke Ellis to organize a massive riot. Director:
Dec 31, 2014 · Topics. 1932, RKO, Prison, Chain Gang, Gangster, Richard Dix. HELL'S HIGHWAY, story by Samuel Ornits, Robert Tasker and Rowland Brown; directed by Rowland Brown; an RKO Radio Production. At the RKO Mayfair.
- 62 min
- 13K
- JimQualls
Movie Title/Year and Scene Descriptions. Screenshots. Hell's Highway (1932) In director Rowland Brown's hard-hitting indictment of the sadistic prison chain-gang system (the first of its kind in the film industry), by RKO's David Selznick, similar to Warners' soon-to-be-released I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) - about prisoners ...
Hell's Highway (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Willie The Weeper African American inmates chant, chain gang franchise owner Billings (Oscar Apfel) with enforcer Skinner (C. Henry Gordon), inmates (Richard Dix, Chas. Middleton) talking rebellion, after a prisoner's death, in Hell's Highway, 1932.
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Two brothers subjected to the brutality of a Southern chain gang risk their lives plotting an escape.
- Crime, Drama