THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino,
Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale,
Roscoe Kearns, John Litel, George Tobias
Raft and Bogart play long-haul truckers who dream of owning their own operation someday. Sheridan plays the truck-stop waitress Raft falls for, and Lupino plays the boss's wife, who's up to no good. It's hard-driving, tough-guy stuff till the final reel, when Lupimo's character cracks wide open. When she goes nuts, she really goes nuts. A remake, more or less, of the Paul Muni/Bette Davis movie "Bordertown", released in 1935.
