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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569794696
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 03, 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 17506
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 03, 1940
Editorial Review:
Description:
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in They Drive by Night, a feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise. Ann Sheridan plays a truck-stop waitress who can dish both the daily special and the patter. And Ida Lupino is the headstrong executive who mixes business and romance with murder. With Bogart again riding shotgun en route to leading-man stardom (a stature he would achieve the following year) and Raft handling the wheel in one of his best roles of the decade, this fine example of Warner Bros. social-conscience filmmaking (directed by Raoul Walsh) proved a sturdy vehicle for both actors. The movie proved even more fortuitous for Lupino. Her courtoom scene of babbling derangement made her a celebrated overnight sensation that resulted in a seven-year studio contract for her. 1940
Amazon.com:
By turns hard-nosed and ribald, They Drive by Night smashes through a vintage Warner Bros. yarn about truck drivers, the Depression, and one duplicitous dame. The opening reels are a forceful look at the dangerous lives of independent truckers (George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as brothers--Bogie in the supporting role, though he would soon eclipse Raft in Hollywood), battling the system and the economy. The final section veers into a less exciting murder frame-up, but Ida Lupino is so delicious as the Black Widow, it works. The robust humor of director Raoul Walsh dominates the film, with some truly hilarious double entendres aimed at outfoxing the censors. At the center of many such one-liners is Ann Sheridan, as a waitress who slings more than hash. It's close to being a classic, and the road sequences are as vital as those in The Grapes of Wrath, made the same year. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Raft, Lupino,Bogart and Sheridan
Thinking this was a Humphrey Bogart movie, I put this in and what I found was a tale of two brothers trying to make it in the trucking business. George Raft plays the other brother and it is George who is really the star here. Early in the movie the brothers make a pit stop in a roadside diner and meet waitress Ann Sheridan who we learn in the auxilary featurette was known as the "ummph girl" back then. George falls for her and she for him but that takes a while to sort itself out(it's funny to hear ... Read More
Rating: - Fine-but it's 2 different movies in one!
"They Drive by Night" dawns as a hard core trucker yarn. Bogey and George Raft are brothers trying to hack it in a tough racket and dreaming of making it big. TDN soars when on the ground. Viewers get a gritty close up view of the rigors faced by independent drivers scrambling for loads and avoiding rip offs and unsavory characters. Then Bogey loses his arm in an accident, leaving GR to support his brother and wife. GR lands a straight job and this reviewer believes the film loses focus. Blue collars ... Read More
Rating:  - EXCELLENT EARLY EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL REALISM MELTS DOWN INTO EMBRYONIC IDA LUPINO WITNESS STAND CONFESSION
This was Humphrey's first film in which he got to show some complexity and he still only gets fourth billing under George Raft (a former ballroom dancer made movie hard guy who here, like Bogart, for the first time does not have to play here a hard gangster but a human and honest being), Anne Sheridan and the BRITISH Ida Lupino (gee, I never realized she was British - guess I was thinking the great Carmen Miranda!)
Real social realism drama on the ins and outs of being a small independent trucker ... Read More
Rating:  - Warners assembly line film with OK extras
As Leonid Maltin states in the "making of" featurette included in this DVD, Warner Brothers were experts at recycling their scripts and this film combines 2 genres - working class drama with high tone emotional melodrama, the latter cribbed from the 1935 "Bordertown".
"They Drive by Night" tells of the Fabrini brothers, George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, who set themselves up in the trucking business. The film benefits from a snappy script, sharp direction from Raoul Walsh and an endless and excellent ... Read More
Rating: - Fatal Traction
Before Humphrey Bogart was an A-list star,and achieved silver screen immortality through "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca",he paid his dues in this cheesy B film noir about independent truck drivers struggling with dire financial circumstances and a femme fatale. It's the kind of story Dashiel Hammett would write if he were parodying his own thrillers.
Bogart and George Raft star as brothers,struggling in their truck driving business. Ida Lupino stars as a desperate housewife,trapped in an unhappy ... Read More
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