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New, restored high-definition Digital transfer; Audio commentary by Alain Silver, editor of Film Noir Reader and author of Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles; New video interview with Jules Dassin; Trailer for The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides (2..4), a new documentary on Bezzerides, author of the screenplay for Thieves' Highway and the novel on which it was based; Original theatrical trailer; English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired; Plus: a new essay by film critic Michael Sragow
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1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:21]
2. Mandarin Slippers [7:53]
3. Ed Kinney [4:30]
4. The Orchard [6:41]
5. Roadside Assistance [7:20]
6. Sleepy Time [2:43]
7. "Where Can I Find Mike Figlia?" [6:56]
8. Black Coffee and Cigarettes [2:50]
9. The Hotel Colchester [5:24]
10. "Fig's Got Apples!" [2:56]
11. Soft Hands, sharp Nails [4:37]
12. Business in the Office [6:52]
13. Phone Call to Fresno [2:55]
14. Apple Cider [1:34]
15. Wrong Side of the Tracks [5:55]
16. "That Guy's Got No Brakes!" [3:48]
17. Arrivals [3:35]
18. "Aren't Women Wonderful?" [4:57]
19. Four Bites a Box [3:20]
20. "Suddenly, I Like the Party" [5:56]
21. "What About My Future?" [1:53]
22. Color Bars [:00]
1. The Film's Participants [1:21]
2. Proletarian Myths [7:53]
3. Mitchell and Conte [4:30]
4. A.I. Bezzerides [6:41]
5. Noir Visual Style [7:20]
6. Montage [2:43]
7. Lee J. Cobb [6:56]
8. A Proletarian Femme Fatale [2:50]
9. "Chipped Glass" [5:24]
10. Comic Relief [2:56]
11. Rica Versus Polly [4:37]
12. Mathematical Order [6:52]
13. Polly's Parents [2:55]
14. "She Likes Money Too" [1:34]
15. Silhouettes [5:55]
16. Misdirection [3:48]
17. Polly in the Novel [3:35]
18. Veterans [4:57]
19. Twisted Freudianism [3:20]
20. Nick's Violence [5:56]
21. Selznick and Breen [1:53]
22. Color Bars [:00]
Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who returns from WWII to find that his father Yanko (Morris Carnovsky), a produce trucker, has lost the use of both legs because of a fight with crooked truck driver Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb). Nick is a clean-cut guy who was set on marrying his sweetheart Polly Faber (Barbara Lawrence). Instead, Nick gets embroiled in his father's feud with Mike, buying a truck and falling deeper into racketeering. He delivers a truckload of apples to Mike as part of a scheme to expose his cheating. A prostitute, Rica (Valentina Cortesa), tells Nick that Mike has his own plot to trap him. Nick and Rica help Mike's henchmen learn that Mike has also been cheating them, and Nick eventually gets his revenge. But Nick has permanently lost Polly because of his involvement with the gangsters and his change in personality from a good guy to a more sinister businessman. Director Jules Dassin was blacklisted from Hollywood for supposed communist sympathies after making this 1949 picture, but he went on to have success with more caper movies while in exile in France. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide