They Drive by Night (1938)

Directors

Arthur B. Woods

Cast

Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, William Hartnell

The story

"Shorty" Matthews, having recently been released from prison, visits his girlfriend in London, only to discover that she has been murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit, he disappears among the long-distance lorry-driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, an unassuming ex-schoolteacher named Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women.

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