Thieves' Highway answers the need for something new in film entertainment. It's a hard-hitting, almost nerve-jangling film of skullduggery in the produce market.

Dassin swathes Thieves' Highway's long-haul boys in claustrophobic compositions and menacing darkness.

Thieves’ Highway is the least known of the four Jules Dassin noirs, but don’t let that keep you away.

For me, the best things about this picture were the long and harrowing scene of Nick trying not to fall asleep at the wheel; the attentiveness, in general, to the physical tasks and risks of long-haul driving...