GANGLAND RIDES the HIGHWAY! (original poster)
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Ralph Byrd Doris Weston Ward Bond Robert Emmett Keane Ben Hewlett Charles Williams Davison Clark Byron Foulger George Anderson Edwin Stanley Ben Hendricks Jr. Sterlita Peluffo Lew Kelly Harrison Greene George Magrill Anna Demetrio Stooge the Dog Sam Appel Stanley Blystone Al Bridge George Cleveland Frank Darien Eduardo Durant Robert Fiske James Flavin Harry Harvey Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian Jack Hendricks Reed Howes Tiny Jones Ethan Laidlaw Edna Lawrence Chris-Pin Martin Pat McKee Dave O'Brien Frank O'Connor Jack Rockwell Carlos Ruffino Max Wagner Nellie Walker Dan White Maston Williams
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