--- title: 'Thieves'' Highway (1949)' type: 'film' director: 'Jules Dassin' released: '1949-09-20' runtime_minutes: 94 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/thieves-highway-1949' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Thieves' Highway (1949) 1949 · 94 min · Drama, Crime · United States ## Synopsis Thieves' Highway is a 1949 American film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese and Lee J. Cobb. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides, based on his novel Thieves' Market. The film was released on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection in 2005. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jules Dassin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-dassin) - **Screenplay:** [Albert Isaac Bezzerides](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-isaac-bezzerides) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-newman) - **Producer:** [Robert Bassler](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-bassler) - **Director of Photography:** [Norbert Brodine](https://cinepixo.com/people/norbert-brodine) ## Cast - [Millard Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/millard-mitchell) - [Lee J. Cobb](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-j-cobb) - [Morris Carnovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/morris-carnovsky) - [Richard Conte](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-conte) - [Jack Oakie](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-oakie) - [Mario Siletti](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-siletti) - [Tamara Shayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamara-shayne) - [Walter Baldwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-baldwin) - [Hope Emerson](https://cinepixo.com/people/hope-emerson) - [Joseph Pevney](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-pevney) - [Barbara Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-lawrence) - [Valentina Cortese](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-cortese) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/thieves-highway-1949 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1457849); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.