They Drive by Night

Continuing the Femmes Fatales season, Raoul Walshs They Drive By Night (1940) features the fascinating Ida Lupino as the femme, as in so many of these classic 1940s B-movies, Humphrey Bogart. Set in the world of Los Angeles truckers, Walsh examines both the squalid and the noble motives of

by James Douglas

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Thu 12 Jan 2006 1:00 AM

Continuing the Femmes Fatales season, Raoul Walshs They Drive By Night (1940) features the fascinating Ida Lupino as the femme, as in so many of these classic 1940s B-movies, Humphrey Bogart. Set in the world of Los Angeles truckers, Walsh examines both the squalid and the noble motives of the protagonists and exposes the difficulties of the underclass. Lupino gives a memorable performance as the unstable and manipulating wife and lover.