Night Ride (1937 film)

Night Ride
Jimmy Hanley & Wally Patch
Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	Anthony Havelock-Allan
Written by	Ralph Gilbert Bettison
Based on	the story by Julian Vedey
Starring	Julian Vedey Wally Patch Jimmy Hanley
Cinematography	Desmond Dickinson
Edited by	Lister Laurance
Production company	British and Dominions
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures
Release dates	June 1937 (UK)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United 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] It 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]

Plot

Young truck driver Dick Benson (Jimmy Hanley) and friend Alf Higgins (Wally Patch) set up their own haulage company with the financial backing of Tony Spinelli (Julian Vedey), an Italian restaurant owner. However, their former boss Arthur Wilson (Frank Petley), concerned about the competition, uses underhand methods to try and sabotage the enterprise. Wilson sends his attractive daughter Ruth (Elizabeth Kent) 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

Julian Vedey as Tony Spinelli
Wally Patch as Alf Higgins
Jimmy Hanley as Dick Benson
Joan Ponsford as Jean Morley
Frank Petley as Arthur Wilson
Elizabeth Kent as Ruth Wilson
Kenneth Buckley as Claude Dulson
Clelia Matania as Lucia Spinelli
Moore Marriott as Miner (role cut)

References

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Night Ride at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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