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They Drive by Night(Movie, 1938)

1h 24min | Genres: Crime, Thriller
They Drive by NightRating: 2.9/5 (with 77 votes)
They Drive by Night is a 1938 British black-and-white crime thriller film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Emlyn Williams as Shorty, an ex-con, and Ernest Thesiger as Walter Hoover, an ex-schoolmaster. It was produced by Warner Bros. - First National Productions and based on the 1938 novel They Drive by Night by James Curtis. The picture is sometimes confused with the 1940 American film They Drive by Night, based on a different novel and featuring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, and also a Warner Bros. film. This British film also has the alternative title, perhaps only in the United States, of Murder on the Run. ()
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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: London
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/01/1938
Director: Arthur B. Woods
Producer: Jerome Jackson
Screenwriter: Geoffrey Basil Maiden
Film Editor: Leslie Norman
Director of Photography: Basil Emmott
Composer: Ernest Irving
Keywords: british noir
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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