They Drive by Night

This film is a nice little crime drama by Raoul Walsh, featuring two truck-driving brothers (Humphrey Bogart and George Raft). They battle to reform the trucking industry and to create a company of their own. Bogart and Ann Sheridan were just coming into prominence as actors and even the often wooden-acting Raft gives a good performance. Except for some courtroom histrionics, Ida Lupino is convincing as a jealous and psychotic femme fatale who tries to frame Raft on a murder charge.

The movie is a good example of the “social issues” films that Warner Brothers produced in the 1930s and early 1940s