The Highwayman is a 1951 American historical adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Philip Friend, Wanda Hendrix and Cecil Kellaway.

The Highwayman is betrayed to the authorities, soldiers march to set an ambush, his lover Bess sacrifices herself to give warning and he is shot down on the highway as he tries to take revenge.

[6] In July 1950, Louis Hayward said that he would star in Dick Turpin's Ride based on the poem and a script by Robert Libot and Frank Burt, with Harry Joe Brown to produce.

In January 1951, Monogram announced that Hal Chester and Bernard Burton would produce and Charles Coburn would be the film's star, with the script written by Henry Blankfort (who used the pseudonym Jan Jeffries because he had been blacklisted).

Burkett went on to buy the film rights to several other Noyes titles: Midnight Express, The Walking Shadows, Beyond the Desert, River of Stars and The Last Voyage.