Highway 301 (1950)

Lee Fontaine: I was just lucky to meet him when he came to Canada on business.
Madeline Welton: [laughs derisively] Women's apparel and furs.
Lee Fontaine: What's so funny?
Madeline Welton: Furs all right - right off the back of a truck while it's still moving.
Mary Simms: Don't listen to her. She doesn't know what she's talking about.
Madeline Welton: Big business man... bank accounts - almost any bank. Take the bank in Winston-Salem for example...

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Detective Sgt. Truscott: [narrating] George Lagenza: specialist in robbing banks... the head man. He'd been Phillips' partner in the escape from the Lorton Reformatory. Now he was a success in his chosen field. Men listened to him. He was bright, tough and deadly.

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[last lines]
Detective Sgt. Truscott: You cannot be kind to congenital criminals like these. They would show you no mercy. Let them feel the full impact of the law.

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The film's title, "Highway 301" refers to a U.S. highway that connects Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina - where the Tri-State gang committed their crimes. The route itself was never mentioned in the film.
Debut of Robert Webber.
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