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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.
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.
Hell's Highway (1932) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Now Streaming. Watch Now. Hell's Highway (1932) 09/23/1932 (US) Crime , Drama 1h 2m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Right here in America... and don't you forget it! Overview. A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars. Rowland Brown. Director, Writer. Samuel Ornitz. Writer. Robert Tasker. Writer.
