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Hell's Highway is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Rowland Brown.
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.jpg) Hell's Highway ad from The Film Daily, 1932 | |
| Directed by | Rowland Brown John Cromwell |
| Written by | Samuel Ornitz and Robert Tasker and Rowland Brown |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick (executive producer) |
| Cinematography | Edward Cronjager |
| Edited by | William Hamilton |
| Music by | Clarence Muse |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $125,000[1] |
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. He soon discovers his younger brother has also been incarcerated and joined the chain gang. Soon enough Duke will mastermind a mass riot.[2]
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