It May Happen to You (1937)

In the heart of a truck hijacking spree, Moxie and Sheafor emerge as cunning ringleaders. They orchestrate audacious heists on state highways, with Moxie and his gang seizing trucks and Sheafor masterfully fencing the stolen goods. When the highway patrol intensifies their pursuit, the duo realizes they need a fresh strategy to keep the operation afloat. Their solution arrives in the form of Eddie, an unsuspecting lad toiling away at the Cassidy meat packing plant's truck loading dock. Seizing the opportunity, Moxie hatches a plan to use Eddie as the linchpin in their scheme, clandestinely hijacking Cassidy trucks and selling the swiped meat. The plan functions flawlessly until the police grow suspicious of the vanishing truckload of meat. They suspect an inside job. The plot thickens when the hijacked meat, poorly stored post-theft, begins to reach consumers, triggering widespread illness and even death. As the police close in, fearing they might reach Eddie, Moxie is compelled to devise a strategy to silence him. Simultaneously, the police believe they've cracked the formula to capture the culprits, aiming to halt the distribution of the lethal, spoiled meat. The narrative weaves a web of tension, trust, and betrayal, where every decision could mean the difference between freedom and capture, life and death.

It May Happen to You is a crime movie featuring J. Carrol Naish and directed by Harold S. Bucquet.

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