Hi-Jack Highway

Hi-Jack Highway

93 mins | Drama, Crime | Oct. 18, 1955

A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.

Hi-Jack Highway

93 mins | Drama, Crime | Oct. 18, 1955

Hi-Jack Highway
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Intermondia Films
Original title Gas-oil
Directors Gilles Grangier
Writers Georges Bayle, Gilles Grangier, Michel Audiard

Cast

Jean Gabin

as Jean Chape

Jeanne Moreau

as Alice

Gaby Basset

as Camille Serin

Marcel Bozzuffi

as Pierrot Ragondin, le jeune routier

Robert Dalban

as Félix, l'affréteur

Albert Dinan

as Émile Serin

Ginette Leclerc

as Mme Scoppo, la veuve

Henri Crémieux

as le juge d'instruction

Simone Berthier

as Annie, une serveuse

Charles Bouillaud

as le gendarme dactylo

Camille Guérini

as Lucien Ragondin, le père

Roger Hanin

as René Schwob, le chef de la bande

Jean Lefebvre

as le chauffeur du car

Jacques Marin

as le gendarme au commissariat

Guy Henry

as Jojo

Gilbert Edard

as Un commissaire

Bob Ingarao

as Un gangster

Lisette Lebon

as Mauricette, une serveuse

Germaine Michel

as Maria Ragondin, la mère de Pierrot

Albert Michel

as Le facteur

Marcel Pérès

as Le barbier

Jean-Marie Rivière

as Un gangster

Mario David

as Un client des Serin

François Darbon

as Antoine Scoppo, le gangster assassiné (uncredited)

Lucien Desagneaux

as Un client (uncredited)

Henri Guégan

as Un routier chez Serin (uncredited)

Jean Lanier

as Le second commissaire (uncredited)

Sylvain Lévignac

as Le convoyeur abattu (uncredited)

Yvonne Yma

as Une villageoise commère (uncredited)