7cb1d79195 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.
What surprised me about "Hell's Highway" more than anything else was that it addressed the abuses of the chain gang system two months before the much more famous "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" debuted. So why is the latter film a super-famous film for its social commentary and "Hell's Highway" is pretty much forgotten? Well, the biggest reason is focus. In "Hell's Highway", while the system is bad, the movie ALSO focuses on the inmates–and shows them, in most cases,a bunch of bad folks. Killers, thieves, cut-throats and homosexuals seem to make up most of the prisoners–so at the time the message of reform was somehow lost. The public no doubt was torn between hating the prisoners and the system that mistreated them.<br/><br/>The film stars Richard Dix in an unusual role. He plays perhaps the toughest of all these prisoners–a guy respected yet feared by everyone. Only when his young brother is also committed to this same chain gang is Dix's toughness challenged. Amidst this strange family reunion is the purpose of this chain gang–not to rehabilitate but to provide cheap labor for a jerk trying to produce a road and make himself rich in the process.<br/><br/>The film excels due to pretty good acting and an exciting script. While it's nottimeless and important"I Am a Fugitive…", it is, nonetheless, well worth seeing and might surprise you at the film's quality and strength.<br/><br/>sign language gibberish
One of only three films (all of them apparently very good) by Rowland Brown, who had more successa screenwriter, this was released the same year"I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang," and apparently its studio had to make some changes in order to avoid potential plagiarism litigation from Warner Brothers. But beyond also being set in a Southern prison work camp, it's very much its own distinctive film in story and style. <br/><br/>The once highly popular, now largely forgotten Richard Dix is finethe tough veteran convict dismayed when his hero-worshipping younger brother turns upa fellow inmate, having glamorized his older sibling's outlaw machismo and severely under-estimating the potentially fatal hardships of being sentenced to such an establishment. Eventually there's an escape attempt, but that doesn't happen until late; most of "Hell's Highway" is concerned with everyday life in the prison camp, and despite its very economical running time, does an impressive job representing the diversity of personality/racial/et al. types amongst both convicts and staff. There's room for humorwellblunt indictment (of an abusive for-profit prison labor system that's all too relevant today). <br/><br/>It's one of those striking vintage movies that packs an unbelievable amount of well-thought-out ideas and drama into a compact package that seldom seems rushed or over-simplified. The only viewers who might be disappointed are those who are here for Rochelle Hudson–though second-billed, she only has one scene in a standard ingenue role, which makes sense this movie takes place in a brutal, self-contained world that has no use for women.


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