“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.
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat.
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
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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
The theatrical trailer of classic Raoul Walsh's classic Noir Film with Bogart and George
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 ...
They Drive By Night 1940 murder scene Ida Lupino
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The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket.
