They Drive by Night

Raoul Walsh (director)
A.I. Bezzerides (novel)
George Hurrell Sr. (photographer)
Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay (screenwriter)
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart (starring)

N.p. Vitagraph, 1940. Vintage studio still photograph of George Raft getting ready to throw a punch from the 1940 film.

Based on the 1939 novel "Long Haul" by A.I. Bezzerides.

Paul (Humphrey Bogart) and Joe Fabrini (Raft) run a trucking business, barely keeping ahead of creditors, when one night a fatigued Paul falls asleep at the wheel, crashing the truck and losing his arm. Joe is then offered a job by his friend Ed Carlsen (Alan Hale) whose wife, Lana (Ida Lupino) has taken a fancy for Joe.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with very faint creasing.

Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US.


[Book #148173]