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Highways by Night is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Peter Godfrey released in USA on 2 october 1942 with Richard Carlson
Highways by Night (1942)
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Add to a movie listHighways by Night is a 1942 American crime drama film directed by Peter Godfrey from a screenplay by Lynn Root and Frank Fenton, based on the story Silver Spoon, by Clarence Budington Kelland. The film stars Richard Carlson and Jane Randolph.
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Richard Carlson
(Tommy Van Steel)
Jane Randolph
(Peggy Fogarty)
Jane Darwell
(Grandma Fogarty)
Barton MacLane
(Leo Bronson)
Ray Collins
(Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle)
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