Truck Busters
An "Accident" Leads To The Ultimate Revenge.
1943 · 58m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
B. Reeves Eason
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Truck Busters
Overview
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Director and cast
- B. Reeves Eason Director
- Richard Travis as Casey Dorgan
- Virginia Christine as Eadie Watkins
- Charles Lang as Jimmy Dorgan
- Ruth Ford as Pearl
- Richard Fraser as Limey
- Tod Andrews as Dave Todd
- Frank Wilcox as Police Capt. Gear
- Don Costello as Anthony 'Tony' Bonetti
- Rex Williams as Al Wilson
- Bill Crago Cast
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