They Drive by Night (1938)

Directed by

Arthur B. Woods

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A truck driver gets caught up in a web of crime after a night on the road. He must navigate a dangerous underworld to clear his name.

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What happens

They Drive by Night (also known as Murder on the Run) is a 1938 British black-and-white crime thriller film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Emlyn Williams and Ernest Thesiger. It was written by Paul Gangelin, James Curtis and Derek Twist based on Curtis's 1938 novel They Drive by Night, and produced by Warner Bros.-First National Productions. The novel was reissued in 2008 by London Books. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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