Shack Out on 101 is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Edward Dein and starring Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn and Lee Marvin.

Plot Slob (Marvin), the lecherous short-order cook at the seaside greasy-spoon diner of sarcastic war veteran George (Wynn), lusts after sexy waitress Kotty (Moore). Also interested in Kotty is a scientist (Lovejoy), who spends the better part of his free time at the diner's counter. He works down the highway at a top-secret military base. As it turns out, Slob is not just a short-order cook but also a spy using the diner as a home base for smuggling nuclear secrets out of the country through a connection with one of the diner's regulars.

Cast Terry Moore as Kotty Frank Lovejoy as Prof. Sam Bastion Keenan Wynn as George Lee Marvin as Slob / Mr. Gregory Whit Bissell as Eddie Jess Barker as Artie Donald Murphy as Pepe Frank DeKova as Prof. Claude Dillon Len Lesser as Perch Fred Gabourie as Lookout

See also List of American films of 1955

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