Highway Dragnet
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| Directed by | Nathan Juran |
| Produced by |
William F. Broidy (executive producer) Jack Jungmeyer |
| Screenplay by | Herb Meadow Jerome Odlum Additional dialogue: Fred Eggers Tom Hubbard |
| Story by |
U.S. Anderson Roger Corman |
| Starring |
Richard Conte Joan Bennett Wanda Hendrix |
| Music by | Edward J. Kay |
| Cinematography | John J. Martin |
| Edited by | Ace Herman |
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Production
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William F. Broidy Productions
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Highway Dragnet is a 1954 film noir crime film directed by Nathan Juran starring Richard Conte, Joan Bennett and Wanda Hendrix.
A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.
Roger Corman sold his first screen story called The House by the Sea to Allied Artists for $3,000. Allied Artists changed the title to the more commercial exploitation Highway Dragnet after the success of the television series Dragnet and Highway Patrol. Portions of the film were shot in the Coachella Valley, California.
The New York Times called the film a "second rate "whodunnit".
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