Night Ride (1937 film)

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Night Ride
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Jimmy Hanley & Wally Patch
Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Written by Ralph Gilbert Bettison
Based onthe story by Julian Vedey
Produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan
Starring
Cinematography Desmond Dickinson
Edited by Lister Laurance
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount British Pictures
Release date
June 1937 (UK)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Night Ride is a 1937 black and white British drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Julian Vedey, Wally Patch and Jimmy Hanley. [1]

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Plot

Young truck driver Dick Benson and his friend Alf Higgins set up their own haulage company with the financial backing of Tony Spinelli, an Italian restaurant owner. However, their former boss Arthur Wilson, concerned about the competition, uses underhand methods to try and sabotage the enterprise. Wilson sends his attractive daughter Ruth to seduce Dick, and a group of thugs to work over their trucks. Wilson very nearly succeeds, but Dick and the truckers make a success of themselves by rescuing miners trapped in a flooded mine.

Main cast

Production

The film was made at Pinewood Studios as a quota quickie for release by Paramount Pictures. [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. [3]

Critical reception

In British Sound Films, David Quinlan considers the film a "saggy drama". [4]

Leslie Halliwell called it a "brisk action programmer". [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Night Ride (1937) - John Paddy Carstairs - Cast and Crew - AllMovie".
  2. ↑ Wood, Linda (1986). British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute. ISBN   978-0851701493.
  3. ↑ "Night Ride (1937)". Archived from the original on 26 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 121. ISBN   0-7134-1874-5.
  5. ↑ Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 730. ISBN   0-586-08894-6.


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