Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 5, 1940

wife (Ida Lupino), whose lustful maneuvers are trickier than a downhill roll, almost end Joe and all his plans in the ditch.

They Drive By Night is one of those unpretentious pictures whose excellence causes little excitement in Hollywood because everyone connected with it has done so much good work before. Raoul Walsh has been directing successes since The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Alan Hale made his first hit in The Covered Wagon (1923). Ida Lupino's family has been on the stage for 350 years. The tradition of Cinemactors Raft and Bogart is less...

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