Highway Patrol (1955)

Motorcycle A

Directed by Lambert Hillyer
TV-G
S1 • E27    Apr 1, 1956    28m
Two bikers (Clint Eastwood as 'Joe Keeley', John Compton as 'Nick West') ride stripped-down Harleys into town and stop at a cafe. They are shocked when the cafe owner (Jack Edwards as 'Bernie Sills') confronts them with a shotgun and orders them to leave.

As his wife calls the Highway Patrol her husband provokes the bikers, until Nick takes the gun from Sills and punches him. The bikers jump on their bikes and roar out of town.

When Sills learns his wife has called the law, he hides the gun and lies to the responding motorcycle cop, telling him the cyclists started the trouble. The cop takes off after the bikers, only to be struck and killed by a trucker who runs a red light.

Broderick Crawford’s ‘Chief Dan Mathews’ quickly sorts truth from fiction and arrests the café owner for assaulting the bikers. A nice (albeit unlikely) twist on the ‘bad guy bikers’ trope!

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Cast of Motorcycle A

  • Broderick CrawfordChief Dan Mathews
  • Art GilmoreNarrator
  • Clint EastwoodJoe Keeley
  • John ComptonNick West
  • Jack EdwardsBernie Sills (Cafe Owner)
  • Paula HoustonMrs. Sills (Cafe Owner's Wife)
  • Lambert HillyerDirector
  • Don BrinkleyWriter

 

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