THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in 'They Drive by Night', a feisty tale of brothers trying to make it as independent truckers. Ann Sheridan plays a truck-stop waitress dishing both the daily special and the patter. And Ida Lupino is a headstrong executive mixing business and romance with murder.; ; With Bogart again riding shotgun en route to leading-man stardom (which he would achieve the following year) and Raft at the wheel in one of his best roles, this fine example of Warner Bros. social-conscience filmmaking (directed by Raoul Walsh) proved a sturdy vehicle for both. It proved even more fortuitous for Lupino: her courtroom breakdown made her an 'overnight' sensation that landed her a studio contract.
• Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, George Tobias, Eddie Acuff, Marie Blake, Eddy Chandler, Richard Clayton, Joyce Compton, Alan Davis, Joe Devlin, Demetris Emanuel, Frank Faylen, Eddie Fetherston, Pat Flaherty, Bess Flowers, Brenda Fowler, Sol Gorss, Jesse Graves, Mack Gray, William Haade, Charles Halton, John Hamilton, Phyllis Hamilton, Carl Harbaugh, George Haywood, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Howard C. Hickman, Al Hill, J. Anthony Hughes, Paul Hurst, Claire James, Dorothea Kent, Mike Lally, Vera Lewis, George Lloyd, Wilfred Lucas, Frank Mayo, Matt McHugh, Edmund Mortimer, Jack Mower, Henry O'Neill, Pedro Regas, John Ridgely, Ralph Sanford, Cliff Saum, Harry Semels, Charles Sherlock, Charles Sullivan, Don Turner, Dorothy Vaughan, Max Wagner, Billy Wayne, Dick Wessel, Frank Wilcox, Norman Willis, Charles C. Wilson, Tom Wilson, Jack Wise, Lillian Yarbo, Raoul Walsh, Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay
• Director: Raoul Walsh
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Warner Bros., First National Pictures
• Media Format: Movie