Down Liberty Road

1956 Drama Directed by Harold D. Schuster

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About Down Liberty Road

On a cross-country Greyhound bus, passengers give shaky accounts of the landmarks they pass. Riders include a father grieving a fallen soldier. Marshall Thompson, Angie Dickinson, and Tommy Kirk are billed. The film is also called Freedom Highway. The English Wikipedia calls Kirk's part an early one.

Cast & crew

More about Down Liberty Road

The English Wikipedia credits Harold D. Schuster as director. Wikidata credits Jerry Fairbanks. Morris Ankrum, Charles Maxwell, John Dierkes, and Tex Ritter are on the cast lists. No running time is listed. Copies are on the Internet Archive, under Freedom Highway, and on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

  • A bus across the country
  • Landmarks told badly
  • A father and a dead soldier
  • Greyhound
  • Freedom Highway
  • Tommy Kirk
  • Angie Dickinson
  • Schuster

Preservation

Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The Internet Archive identifier is freedom_highway_ipod.
  • The director credit is split between Schuster and Fairbanks.
  • It is a short, not a feature, on the English Wikipedia.

Scenes

  • Passengers on the bus talk through the landmarks as the miles go by.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (freedom_highway_ipod)