Thieves' Highway is a 1949 American film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese and Lee J.

He learns that his father was crippled at the hands of an unscrupulous produce dealer in San Francisco, called Mike Figlia.

Figlia hires a streetwalker, Rica, to seduce and preoccupy Garcos in her room while his men unload the apples without permission.

In a horrific crash Kinney initially survives but the truck bursts into flames and he is burned alive, to the horror of several onlookers.

Polly, Garco's hometown sweetheart, then arrives in the city ready to marry him, but leaves disillusioned after she finds him recovering from his beating in Rica's apartment and with no money.

Garco and a trucker, who witnessed and brings news of Kinney's death, finally confront the cowed bully Figlia at a tavern.

The warehouses were demolished to make way for the Alcoa Building (now known as One Maritime Plaza), and the Golden Gateway residential and commercial development.