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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.
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.
May 12, 2024 · English. Storyline: 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: Rowland Brown. John Cromwell. Writers: Samuel Ornitz. Robert Tasker. Rowland Brown. Stars: Richard Dix. Rochelle Hudson. Tom Brown.
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.
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 employed to construct "Liberty Road County Highway" for unscrupulous private ...
Two brothers subjected to the brutality of a Southern chain gang risk their lives plotting an escape.