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Auction History Result 7k759 THIEVES' HIGHWAY 1sh '49 Jules Dassin, shirtless Richard Conte & pretty Valentina Cortese! Date Sold 9/29/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Thieves' Highway, the 1949 Jules Dassin post-World War II (WWII) truck-driving romantic love triangle crime film noir ("When these two meet - somebody's bound to get hurt!!!"; "You need a friend, strong man - and I'm friendly!"; "Screen Play by A.I. Bezzerides - Based on his novel 'Thieves' Market'"; about a veteran who returns from the war and his truck driving father has been maimed, and he becomes a truck driver himself to find the people responsible) starring Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese (billed as "Valentina Cortesa"), Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Joseph Pevney, Morris Carnovsky, Tamara Shayne, Kasia Orzazewski, Norbert Schiller, and Hope Emerson. Note director Jules Dassin had started by making patriotic anti-Nazi movies during World War II, and after the war, he would make some great film noirs, and then he made his greatest movie, "Du rififi chez les hommes", in 1955, "Never on Sunday" in 1960, and "Topkapi" in 1962. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. There is a large tear at left and some tears and areas of paper loss along the foldlines and around the edges of the poster (some repaired with tape from the back). Learn More about condition grades 
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