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Highway Patrol

Jun 27, 1938

0h 56m

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Overview

Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who have wrecked his gas stations, hi-jacked his trucks and attempted to blow up his plant.

Genres

Action

Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

William Rolph

Robert Paige

Jane Brady (as Jacqueline Wells)

Julie Bishop

J.W. Brady

Robert Middlemass

Walter Brennan

Arthur Loft

Jarvis

Al Bridge

Estelle

Ann Doran

Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first act, rounds up every criminal in town. Gang boss 'Dapper' Frank Trent stands bail for all of them as independent minor gang-leader. Setting out to get Trent, Nolan moves in on his hideout, assisted by his friend 'Shakespeare.' Trent kills Shakespeare, but makes Nolan believe it is his shot that has done so. Nolan resigns his commission and becomes a drunk. Found unconscious by Trent, he is offered as the pièce de résistance at a gangland banquet which 'The Magpie' attends. A lost film.

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Highway Patrol

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