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Motor Patrol
Directed bySam Newfield
Written byMaurice Tombragel
Orville Hampton
Based onstory by Maurice Tombragel
Produced byBarney A. Sarecky
executive
Robert L. Lippert
CinematographyErnest Miller
Production
company
Distributed byLippert Pictures
Release date
  • May 12, 1950 (1950-05-12)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Motor Patrol (also known as Highway Patrol) is a 1950 American film directed by Sam Newfield.[1]

Plot

Two 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

  • 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

  1. ^ "MOTOR PATROL". Monthly Film Bulletin. 18 (204). London: 251. 1 January 1951. ProQuest 1305813509.