Highway Patrol
★ 6.2 · 1955 · 28m · Action & Adventure · Drama
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
Episodes
27. Motorcycle A28m · Two bikers (Clint Eastwood as 'Joe Keeley', John Compton as 'Nick West') ride stripped-down Harleys into town and stop at a cafe. They are shocked when the cafe owner (Jack Edwards as 'Bernie Sills') confronts them with a shotgun and orders them to leave.
As his wife calls the Highway Patrol her husband provokes the bikers, until Nick takes the gun from Sills and punches him. The bikers jump on their bikes and roar out of town.
When Sills learns his wife has called the law, he hides the gun and lies to the responding motorcycle cop, telling him the cyclists started the trouble. The cop takes off after the bikers, only to be struck and killed by a trucker who runs a red light.
Broderick Crawford’s ‘Chief Dan Mathews’ quickly sorts truth from fiction and arrests the café owner for assaulting the bikers. A nice (albeit unlikely) twist on the ‘bad guy bikers’ trope!▶28. Mental Patient28m · ▶29. License Plates28m · An alert boy is able to give Dan Mathews information that provides a critical break in the pursuit of a recidivist thief.▶30. Hitchhiker Dies28m · ▶31. Blast Area Copter28m · ▶32. Anti-toxin28m · ▶33. Dead Patrolman28m · A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.▶34. Art Robbery28m · Two thieves attempt to steal valuable paintings and demand ransom of $500,000. but they are forced to commit murder when the plan goes awry.▶35. Runaway Boy28m · ▶36. Taxi28m · ▶37. Missing Witness28m · ▶38. Prospector28m · A poor prospector arouses suspicion when he suddenly begins paying off long-standing debts from a large roll of new $100 bills.▶39. Christmas Story28m · More Like This
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