They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night (1940) is a Warner Bros. crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh that you can watch online on iFILM. Brothers Joe and Paul Fabrini haul freight across California's night highways as independent truckers — chasing deadlines, dodging creditors, and stealing minutes of sleep whenever the road allows. George Raft and Humphrey Bogart play them with the kind of bone-deep weariness that no studio polish can fake.

One bad accident reshuffles everything. Joe lands in a world of money and back-room power, where opportunity comes wrapped in someone else's desperation. Ida Lupino's Lana Carlsen is the film's real shock — a woman who decides what she wants and moves toward it with a calm that is far more chilling than any crooked road. Ann Sheridan holds her own opposite both leads, grounding the melodrama in something recognisably human.

Walsh stitches two films into one — a working-class road picture and a cool-blooded noir — and the seam is barely visible. Stream They Drive by Night (1940) online on iFILM.