Night Ride (1937 film)

Night Ride
Jimmy Hanley & Wally Patch
Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Written by
Based on	the story by Julian Vedey
Produced by	Anthony Havelock-Allan
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 date	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
• 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 IMDb

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