Motor Patrol (also known as Highway Patrol) is a 1950 American film directed by Sam Newfield.[1]
Motor Patrol | |
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Directed by | Sam Newfield |
Written by | Maurice Tombragel Orville Hampton |
Based on | story by Maurice Tombragel |
Produced by | Barney A. Sarecky executive Robert L. Lippert |
Cinematography | Ernest Miller |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Lippert Pictures |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Plot
editTwo Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officers respond to a report of a traffic accident and find that a pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Detectives determine that the incident was related to a stolen car ring. An LAPD academy recruit volunteers for an undercover mission to penetrate the stolen-car ring posing as a car thief from Chicago. Eventually the crooks discover that he is a police officer.
Cast
edit- Don Castle as Ken Foster
- Jane Nigh as Connie Taylor
- Bill Henry as Larry Collins
- Gwen O'Connor as Jean Collins
- Onslow Stevens as Lt. Dearborn
- Reed Hadley as Robert Flynn
- Dick Travis as Bill Hartley
- Sid Melton as Omar Shelley
- Charles Victor as Russ Garver
References
edit- ^ "MOTOR PATROL". Monthly Film Bulletin. 18 (204). London: 251. 1 January 1951. ProQuest 1305813509.
External links
edit- Motor Patrol at IMDb
- Motor Patrol at TCMDB
- Motor Patrol at BFI