“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
John Cummings, an unsuccessful London cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by a hood in the employ of Lionel Meadows, sadistic organiser of a car conversion racket.
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees.
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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They Drive by Night - Original Theatrical Trailer
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 ...
Emlyn Williams - They Drive by Night - 1938
A convict just out of prison is implicated in a murder and goes on the run hitching a ride with a truck driver. Stars: Emlyn Williams Ernest Thesiger & Anna ...
They Drive by Night - Trailer
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They Drive by Night (1938) - Shorty on the run
Shorty Matthews (Emlyn Williams) goes on the run with lorry driver Wally (Allan Jeayes) as his unwitting accomplice.
They drive by night (1938) - Walter Hoover's theories on murder
In this scene from the 1938 British film 'They Drive by Night' Walter Hoover (Ernest Thesiger) explains to the others in the pub why Shorty Matthews could not ...
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In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
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This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war.
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