They Drive by Night (1938 film)
They Drive by Night is a 1938 British black-and-white crime thriller film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Emlyn Williams as Shorty, an ex-con, and Ernest Thesiger as Walter Hoover, an ex-schoolmaster.
It was produced by Warner Bros. - First National Productions and based on the novel "They Drive by Night" by James Curtis.
The picture is sometimes confused with the 1940 American film "They Drive by Night" based on the novel "The Long Haul" by A. I. Bezzerides and featuring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart.
Bordertown (1935 film)
Bordertown is a 1935 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis.
The screenplay by Laird Doyle and Wallace Smith is based on Robert Lord's adaptation of the 1934 novel" Border Town" by Carroll Graham.
The supporting cast features Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette and Robert Barrat.
Although the films" They Drive by Night"( 1940) and" Blowing Wild"( 1953) are not specifically remakes of" Bordertown", they include many of its plot elements and similar scenes.
Escape by Night (1937 film)
Escape by Night is a 1937 American film directed by Hamilton MacFadden.
They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night is a 1940 film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart.
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).
James Curtis (author)
James Curtis( 4 July 1907 – 1977) was a British author who was best known for his novels," They Drive By Night" and" There Ai n't No Justice", both of which were made into feature films.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Raoul Walsh
Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh.
He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and for directing such films as "The Big Trail" (1930), starring John Wayne, "High Sierra" (1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart; and "White Heat" (1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien.
He directed his last film in 1964.
Clash by Night (1963 film)
Clash by Night( released in the US as Escape by Night) is a 1963 British crime thriller directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Terence Longdon and Jennifer Jayne.
George Raft
George Raft( born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in" Scarface"( 1932)," Each Dawn I Die"( 1939), and Billy Wilder's comedy" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), as a dancer in" Bolero"( 1934), and a truck driver in" They Drive by Night"( 1940).
Raft said he never regarded himself as an actor.
" I wanted to be me", he said.

Question: Which country the director of film They Drive By Night is from?
Answer: American