They Drive by Night

"Shorty" Matthews (Emlyn Williams) has recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover 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, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover (Ernest Thesiger) continues to prey on London women.

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Cast
Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (Movie Plots dataset) — title, year, creator, genre, description, credits
  2. Wikidata · Q7783704 ↗ — length, color, country