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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros crime drama film directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Creator/AnnSheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino. It's frequently cited as an early example of FilmNoir.
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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros crime drama film directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Creator/AnnSheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino. It's frequently cited as an early example of FilmNoir.
FilmNoir. It is based on the novel ''The Long Haul'' by A. I. Bezzerides.
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Not to be confused with Creator/NicholasRay's 1948 film ''They Live by Night''.
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Semi-remake of 1935 film ''Film/{{Bordertown}}''. Not to be confused with Creator/NicholasRay's 1948 film ''They Live by Night''.
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* SleepingWithTheBosssWife: Defied. Lana Carlsen clearly has a thing for her husband's employee, Joe Fabrini, but Joe never responds to any of her advances. Initially, it's because Joe considers the boss an old friend and would never betray his trust like that--and Lana responds by [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering her husband]]. Then Lana discovers that Joe already has another girl anyway, [[IfICantHaveYou so she tries to have him implicated in her husband's murder]].
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* JustOneMoreLevel: A trucker gets stuck playing a pinball machine for hours, mostly because he keeps winning free games and thinks it would be a waste not to use them all.
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* MarketBasedTitle: Was released in the UK under the title ''The Road to Frisco''.
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* OutOfFocus: For the first third of the movie, Paul Fabrini seems to be the {{Deuteragonist}}. But after he gets in the wreck and loses his arm, he fades into the background while the movie focuses on the drama between Joe and Lana.
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* AllAPartOfTheJob: Joe and Paul have a horrible boss, trucking is a tough job, but Joe loves being on the road, not even a tragic death of a fellow trucker can make him stop.
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* AllAPartOfTheJob: Joe and Paul have a horrible boss, and trucking is a tough job, but Joe loves being on the road, not road. Not even a the tragic death of a fellow trucker can make him stop.stop.
* BrainlessBeauty: Irish (played by Roscoe Karns) picks up a girl who surely doesn’t know her left hand from her right.
* BrainlessBeauty: Irish (played by Roscoe Karns) picks up a girl who surely doesn’t know her left hand from her right.
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* TheDitz: Irish (played by Roscoe Karns) picks up a girl who surely doesn’t know her left hand from her right.
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* TheDitz: Irish (played by Roscoe Karns) picks up {{Eucatastrophe}}: At Joe's trial, the prosecution appears to be building a girl who surely doesn’t know her left hand from her right.pretty damning case out of circumstantial evidence. Then they call the star witness, Lana--and she has a complete breakdown, proving herself unfit to testify. After she's led away, the case against Joe is almost immediately tossed out.
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* NouveauRiche: Ed Carlsen came from blue-collar roots and only earned his wealth recently. He still acts like he's a truck driver himself--which is one of the reasons Lana resents him.
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* SanitySlippage: After murdering Ed, Lana's haunted by her guilt and becomes terrified of any automatic doors (since they remind her of the doors to the garage where Ed died). Getting held in a prison with automatic doors reduces her to a LaughingMad wreck who claims ''the doors'' made her kill Ed.
* SpinningPaper: Shows up for exposition after Lana goes to the District Attorney with the story that Joe made her kill her husband.
* SpinningPaper: Shows up for exposition after Lana goes to the District Attorney with the story that Joe made her kill her husband.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Lana starts off coldly scheming and seething. But as [[SanitySlippage sanity deteriorates]], so too does her composure, and she spends more time crying hysterically or flying into a rage.
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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros crime drama film directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Creator/AnnSheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino. It's frequently cited as an early example of FilmNoir.
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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros crime drama film directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino.
Creator/IdaLupino. It's frequently cited as an early example of FilmNoir.
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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros drama directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino.
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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros crime drama film directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino.
Not to be confused with Creator/NicholasRay's 1948 film ''They Live by Night''.
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!!''They Drive By by Night'' shows examples of:
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* PrettyInMink: Lana has a few furs from her marriage to Ed. He even asks Lana to wear her ermine coat one night out.
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Two brothers, Joe (Raft) and Paul (Bogart) Fabrini, are living the perilous life of truckers where they have to fight to get a decent wage and live without their loved ones. Joe eventually finds love with Cassie (Sheridan) and things to be going better when the brothers sign up with a new employer, Ed Carlsen (Alan Hale Sr.). Unfortunately, Paul loses his arm in an accident while things get rocky for Joe when Ed’s wife, Lana (Lupino), incessantly flirts with him, wanting an extramarital affair. It’s something she’s almost all too willing to realize when she decides to murder her husband and be with Joe.
Things get worse from there.
Things get worse from there.
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Two brothers, Joe (Raft) and Paul (Bogart) Fabrini, are living the perilous life of truckers where they have to fight truckers, fighting to get a decent wage and live living without their loved ones. Joe eventually finds love with Cassie (Sheridan) and things seem to be going better improve when the brothers sign up with a new employer, Ed Carlsen (Alan Hale Sr.). Unfortunately, two tragedies strike: Paul loses his arm in an accident while things get rocky for Joe when Ed’s wife, Lana (Lupino), incessantly flirts with him, wanting an extramarital affair. It’s something she’s almost all too willing tries and begins to realize when she decides to murder scheme against her husband and to be with Joe.
Things only get worse from there.
Things only get worse from there.
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* AllAPartOFTheJob: Joe and Paul have a horrible boss, trucking is a tough job, but Joe loves being on the road, not even a tragic death of a fellow trucker can make him stop.
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* AllAPartOFTheJob: AllAPartOfTheJob: Joe and Paul have a horrible boss, trucking is a tough job, but Joe loves being on the road, not even a tragic death of a fellow trucker can make him stop.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Lana and Ed. It’s obvious that his affection is real while hers is dubious at best.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Lana and Ed. It’s obvious that his affection is real while hers her's is dubious at best.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Who knew [[BillingDisplacement the guy guy]] on the right would come out the star?]]
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Cassie and Joe.
-->'''Joe''': Do you believe [[ {{Lampshaded}}:in love at first sight?]]
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Cassie and Joe.
Joe even lampshade it.
-->'''Joe''': Do you believe[[ {{Lampshaded}}:in in love at first sight?]]sight?
-->'''Joe''': Do you believe
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-->'''Joe''': When I'm relaxed relaxed, my thoughts are clear.
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** Some one Joe compares her to a car, and she responses:car:
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''They Drive by Night'' (1940) is a Creator/WarnerBros drama directed by Creator/RaoulWalsh, starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Creator/HumphreyBogart, and Creator/IdaLupino.
Two brothers, Joe (Raft) and Paul (Bogart) Fabrini, are living the perilous life of truckers where they have to fight to get a decent wage and live without their loved ones. Joe eventually finds love with Cassie (Sheridan) and things to be going better when the brothers sign up with a new employer, Ed Carlsen (Alan Hale Sr.). Unfortunately, Paul loses his arm in an accident while things get rocky for Joe when Ed’s wife, Lana (Lupino), incessantly flirts with him, wanting an extramarital affair. It’s something she’s almost all too willing to realize when she decides to murder her husband and be with Joe.
Things get worse from there.
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!!''They Drive By Night'' shows examples of:
*TheAlcoholic: Ed, and it comes back to haunt him when Lana uses his drunkenness as a cover up for murder.
*AllAPartOFTheJob: Joe and Paul have a horrible boss, trucking is a tough job, but Joe loves being on the road, not even a tragic death of a fellow trucker can make him stop.
*TheCasanova: Joe was one, but that was before he met Cassie.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Charles C. Wilburn plays the evil boss that withholds the brothers’ pay and unleashes the loan shark to collect their truck.
*DeadpanSnarker: Cassie. Cassie all the way.
**When Joe won’t leave her hotel room:
-->'''Joe''': When I'm relaxed my thoughts are clear.
-->'''Cassie''': Yeah, I can even read them from here.
**Some one compares her to a car, and she responses:
-->'''Joe''': It's a classy chassis!
-->'''Cassie''': You couldn't even afford the headlights.
*TheDitz: Irish (played by Roscoe Karns) picks up a girl who surely doesn’t know her left hand from her right.
*EveryCarIsAPinto: Trucks. They blow up easily apparently.
*FemmeFatale: Although not exactly a noir, Lupino’s character exhibits a lot of the traits.
*FrameUp: When admitting her undying love pushes Joe even further from her grasp, Lana decides to frame him for the murder of her husband, saying that he made her do it. There’s enough circumstancial evidence that it seems plausible enough for the police.
*GoldDigger: It appears that Lana only married Ed for his newly earned money.
*IfICantHaveYou: Lana will frame you for murder and have you burn in the chair for spurning her.
*LadyMacbeth: Lana has shades of this, and she even does one better by becoming crazy from the guilt.
*LoanShark: The CorruptCorporateExecutive sends his minion of a loan shark that attempts to repossess the brothers’ truck on several occasions.
*LoveAtFirstSight: Cassie and Joe.
-->'''Joe''': Do you believe [[ {{Lampshaded}}:in love at first sight?]]
-->'''Cassie''': It saves a lot of time.
*LoveMakesYouCrazy: Lana goes bonkers with her love (read: obsession) for Joe that she murders her dumb, but good-natured husband for him.
*MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ed comes back from a night out extremely drunk and passes out in his garage while in the car. Lana proceeds to leave the car idling and closes the garage doors. Her statement to the police is that it was all an accident.
*MurderTheHypotenuse: There’s definitely a LoveTriangle for Lana, and she promptly removes her bothersome husband to get Joe.
*UglyGuyHotWife: Lana and Ed. It’s obvious that his affection is real while hers is dubious at best.
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Two brothers, Joe (Raft) and Paul (Bogart) Fabrini, are living the perilous life of truckers where they have to fight to get a decent wage and live without their loved ones. Joe eventually finds love with Cassie (Sheridan) and things to be going better when the brothers sign up with a new employer, Ed Carlsen (Alan Hale Sr.). Unfortunately, Paul loses his arm in an accident while things get rocky for Joe when Ed’s wife, Lana (Lupino), incessantly flirts with him, wanting an extramarital affair. It’s something she’s almost all too willing to realize when she decides to murder her husband and be with Joe.
Things get worse from there.
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!!''They Drive By Night'' shows examples of:
*TheAlcoholic: Ed, and it comes back to haunt him when Lana uses his drunkenness as a cover up for murder.
*AllAPartOFTheJob: Joe and Paul have a horrible boss, trucking is a tough job, but Joe loves being on the road, not even a tragic death of a fellow trucker can make him stop.
*TheCasanova: Joe was one, but that was before he met Cassie.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Charles C. Wilburn plays the evil boss that withholds the brothers’ pay and unleashes the loan shark to collect their truck.
*DeadpanSnarker: Cassie. Cassie all the way.
**When Joe won’t leave her hotel room:
-->'''Joe''': When I'm relaxed my thoughts are clear.
-->'''Cassie''': Yeah, I can even read them from here.
**Some one compares her to a car, and she responses:
-->'''Joe''': It's a classy chassis!
-->'''Cassie''': You couldn't even afford the headlights.
*TheDitz: Irish (played by Roscoe Karns) picks up a girl who surely doesn’t know her left hand from her right.
*EveryCarIsAPinto: Trucks. They blow up easily apparently.
*FemmeFatale: Although not exactly a noir, Lupino’s character exhibits a lot of the traits.
*FrameUp: When admitting her undying love pushes Joe even further from her grasp, Lana decides to frame him for the murder of her husband, saying that he made her do it. There’s enough circumstancial evidence that it seems plausible enough for the police.
*GoldDigger: It appears that Lana only married Ed for his newly earned money.
*IfICantHaveYou: Lana will frame you for murder and have you burn in the chair for spurning her.
*LadyMacbeth: Lana has shades of this, and she even does one better by becoming crazy from the guilt.
*LoanShark: The CorruptCorporateExecutive sends his minion of a loan shark that attempts to repossess the brothers’ truck on several occasions.
*LoveAtFirstSight: Cassie and Joe.
-->'''Joe''': Do you believe [[ {{Lampshaded}}:in love at first sight?]]
-->'''Cassie''': It saves a lot of time.
*LoveMakesYouCrazy: Lana goes bonkers with her love (read: obsession) for Joe that she murders her dumb, but good-natured husband for him.
*MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ed comes back from a night out extremely drunk and passes out in his garage while in the car. Lana proceeds to leave the car idling and closes the garage doors. Her statement to the police is that it was all an accident.
*MurderTheHypotenuse: There’s definitely a LoveTriangle for Lana, and she promptly removes her bothersome husband to get Joe.
*UglyGuyHotWife: Lana and Ed. It’s obvious that his affection is real while hers is dubious at best.
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