They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Raoul Walsh Hugh MacMullen (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Jerry Wald Richard Macaulay
Based on	Long Haul 1938 novel by A. I. Bezzerides
Produced by	Mark Hellinger
Starring	George Raft Ann Sheridan Ida Lupino Humphrey Bogart
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Edited by	Thomas Richards
Music by	Adolph Deutsch
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	July 27, 1940 (1940-07-27) (NYC) August 3, 1940 (1940-08-03) (US) [1]
Running time	93 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$539,000[2]
Box office	$1,596,000[2]

They Drive by Night is a 1940 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart, and featuring Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel and George Tobias. The picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the UK under the title The Road to Frisco. The film was based on A. I. Bezzerides' 1938 novel Long Haul, which was later reprinted under the title They Drive by Night to capitalize on the success of the film.

Part of the film's plot – that of Ida Lupino's character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning – was borrowed from another Warner Bros. film, Bordertown (1935) with Paul Muni and Bette Davis.^{[citation needed]}