Highways by Night

October. 02,1942      
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

Richard Carlson as  Tommy Van Steel
Jane Randolph as  Peggy Fogarty
Jane Darwell as  Grandma Fogarty
Barton MacLane as  Leo Bronson
Ray Collins as  Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
Gordon Jones as  'Footsy' Fogarty
Renee Godfrey as  Ellen Cromwell
Iris Adrian as  Blonde Chorine
Jack La Rue as  Johnny Lieber, Gangster
John McGuire as  James 'Duke' Wellington

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Reviews

Glucedee
1942/10/02

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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StyleSk8r
1942/10/03

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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KnotStronger
1942/10/04

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

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Bob
1942/10/05

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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dutchmonkey
1942/10/06

Richard Carlson (of "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "It Came From Outer Space") is excellent as the naive, bespectacled, non-smoking, non-drinking millionaire Tommy Van Steele who takes his uncle's advice to experience life in this action-filled comedy. As the chief engineer and owner of a major automotive manufacturing company, he winds up going incognito into the blue-collar world of trucking (Howard Hughes himself went undercover early in his life to work for a major airline in order to learn from them, but Carlson's character is more like Howard Bannister in "What's Up, Doc?"). He eventually discovers, embraces, and falls in love with the real world. Jane Darwell (famous for "The Grapes of Wrath," among others) plays the feisty heart-of-gold grandma of babe Jane Randolph (she was Alice in both "Cat People" movies). Not quite a "screwball comedy," but darn near. Plus some great (and corny) fight scenes!

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