They Drive by Night 1940 Humphrey Bogart

Brothers Joe (George Raft) and Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) are independent truck drivers who make a meager living transporting goods. Joe convinces Paul to start their own small, one-truck business, staying one step ahead of loan shark Farnsworth (an uncredited Charles Halton), who is trying to repossess their truck. At one stop, Joe is attracted to waitress Cassie Hartley (Ann Sheridan). Later, the brothers pick up a hitchhiker going to Los Angeles; Joe is pleased when it turns out to be Cassie, who quit after her boss tried to get a bit too friendly with her. While en route, they witness a truck, its driver asleep at the wheel, go off the road and explode in flames. When they return to Los Angeles, Paul is reunited with his patient though worried wife, Pearl (Gale Page), who would rather have Paul settle down in a safer, more regular job. Joe finds Cassie a place to stay, and starts seeing her. Directed by Raoul Walsh Produced by Mark Hellinger Screenplay by Jerry Wald Richard Macaulay Based on the novel Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides Starring George Raft Ann Sheridan Ida Lupino Humphrey Bogart Music by Adolph Deutsch Cinematography Arthur Edeson Edited by Thomas Richards