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They Drive by Night is a american film of genre Drama directed by Raoul Walsh released in USA on 3 august 1940 with George Raft
They Drive by Night (1940)
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Add to a movie listFor the 1938 British film, see They Drive by Night (1938 film).
They Drive by Night is a 1940 black-and-white film noir starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart, and directed by Raoul Walsh. The picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the UK under the title The Road to Frisco. The film was based on A. I. Bezzerides' 1938 novel Long Haul, which was later reprinted under the title They Drive by Night to capitalize on the success of the film. Part of the film's plot (that of Ida Lupino's character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning) was borrowed from another Warner Bros. film, Bordertown (1935).
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Brothers Joe (George Raft) and Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) are independent truck drivers who make a meager living transporting goods. Joe convinces Paul to start their own small, one-truck business, staying one step ahead of loan shark Farnsworth (an uncredited Charles Halton), who is trying to repossess their truck.Actors
George Raft
(Joe Fabrini)
Ann Sheridan
(Cassie Hartley)
Ida Lupino
(Lana Carlsen)
Humphrey Bogart
(Paul Fabrini)
Gale Page
(Pearl Fabrini)
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