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 venerable, but equally surefire. To Screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay goes credit for a script which renders the earthy talk of its characters without sniggering. Says Bogart as he wearily climbs into his truck: “By the time I get home to my wife I’ll be too tired to turn out the light.”
The Ramparts We Watch (THE MARCH or TIME; TIME, July 29).
Pride & Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson. Maureen O’Sullivan, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Melville Cooper, Edmund Gwenn; TIME, July 29).
Tom Brown’s School Days (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon; TIME, July 8).
The Mortal Storm (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Irene Rich, Maria Ouspenskaya; TIME, July 1).
Our Town (William Holden, Martha Scott, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Guy Kibbee, Frank Craven; TIME, June 3).
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