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
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.
tensenoirishgrittyatmosphericpacing and quicksuspensefulshadowyedge-of-your-seat
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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