Thieves' Highway (1949). A veteran of World War II arrives back home where his girlfriend, soon-to-be wife, is currently living with his elderly parents. The veteran decides to go into business with a new friend he meets, trucking fresh apples from the country out to San Francisco. It turns out the both of them are competing with another duo of truckers buying the same apples. While his partner has an unfortunate accident, he is looking not to get ripped off by shady market dealers buying wholesale. Turns out the market dealer he sold to was a mobster who ran a racket, and he gets himself into serious trouble after threatening the market dealer who tried to rip him off. A whole series of events happen that start to unravel his future plans as a businessman and family man after his girlfriend comes to see him in San Francisco, catching him with another woman.