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They Drive by Night (1940)

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Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 14  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 6.8/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Synopsis: A superb drama dealing with the heroic efforts of two brothers who maintain a free-lance truck driving business against a brace of angry mob bosses. Once these crooked "businessmen" find out independent operators are invading their turf, they plan to overthrow their business--by... A superb drama dealing with the heroic efforts of two brothers who maintain a free-lance truck driving business against a brace of angry mob bosses. Once these crooked "businessmen" find out independent operators are invading their turf, they plan to overthrow their business--by literally running them off the road. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Gale Page

Director: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Mark Hellinger
Composer: Adolph Deutsch

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 10, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Fetures:

  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Mono 1.0 English

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05/24/03
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Sem se decidir se quer ser um drama sobre a difícil vida dos caminhoneiros ou um frágil e artificial filme de tribunal, este trabalho de Walsh desperdiça Raft, Bogie e Sheridan, além de contar com uma atuação pavorosamente ruim de Lupino.

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04/03/08
Pablo Villaca
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03/12/08
Cole Smithey
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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
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02/17/06
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
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3/5

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11/04/05
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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4/5

Inventive crime drama, about truckers

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08/13/05
Michael E. Grost
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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
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04/22/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Raoul Walsh directs this entertaining romantic melodrama with tenderness.

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11/02/04
Dennis Schwartz
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08/26/04
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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06/04/04
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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The film's U-turn is so radical that it arguably transforms They Drive By Night into one of the U.S. cinema's earliest experiments in portmanteau

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02/17/04
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central
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A forgotten gem.

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01/05/04
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal
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11/06/03
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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There's no denying that this overlooked 1940 gem is essentially two films in one.

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11/02/03
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
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07/30/03
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Dave Kehr
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