Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Long Haul (1957)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Ken Hughes
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)

Uneasy mixture of gritty truck drivers and relationship melodrama as Victor Mature tangles with his union boss and his wife. Mature is discharged from the Army in England and takes a job working for his wife's uncle as a truck driver. Illegal activity is rampant and he is soon swept up in it. He gets involved with platinum blonde Diana Dors, destroying his marriage. A final scene has him trying to transport a truck load of furs over a hill and across a river.

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