Highway West

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Highway West
Highway West.jpg
Directed by William C. McGann
Written by
Based onHeat Lightning
1933 play
by George Abbott
Leon Abrams
Produced by Edmund Grainger
Starring
Cinematography Ted D. McCord
Edited by Jack Killifer
Music by William Lava
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • August 7, 1941 (1941-08-07)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Highway West is a 1941 American crime film directed by William C. McGann and starring Brenda Marshall, Arthur Kennedy and William Lundigan. It is a remake of the 1934 film Heat Lightning . [1] It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Esdras Hartley.

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Plot

A woman discovers that her apparently respectable businessman husband is in fact a notorious bank robber.

Cast

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  1. Goble p.1

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