| Description |
4 videodiscs (417 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
They drive by night: includes featurette "Divided Highway: the story of They drive by night," musical short "Swingtime in the movies" theatrical trailer. Across the Pacific: includes "Warner night at the movies 1942," short subjects gallery with vintage newsreel, short, cartoon and trailers, featurette "Hollywood helps the cause," studio blooper reel. Action in the North Atlantic: includes "Warner night at the movies 1943," short subjects gallery with vintage newsreel, short, cartoon and trailers, featurette "Credit where credit is due," audio-only bonus-radio show with George Raft and Raymond Massey. Passage to Marseille: includes "Warner night at the movies 1944" short subjects gallery with vintage newsreel, shorts, cartoon and trailers, featurette "The free French: unsung victors," studio blooper reel. |
| Contents |
They drive by night -- Across the Pacific -- Action in the North Atlantic -- Passage to Marseille. |
| Credits |
They drive by night: directed by Raoul Walsh, screenplay by Jerry Wald and Richard MacAulay. |
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Across the Pacific: directed by John Huston, screenplay by Richard MacAulay. |
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Action in the North Atlantic: directed by Lloyd Bacon, screenplay by John Howard Larson. |
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Passage to Marseille: directed by Michael Curtiz, screenplay by Casey Robinson. |
| Cast |
They drive by night: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart. |
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Across the Pacific: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet. |
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Action in the North Atlantic: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale. |
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Passage to Marseille: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michelle Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet. |
| Summary |
They drive by night (1940, 95 min.): A feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise. |
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Across the Pacific (1942, 96 min.): Rick Leland, a tough, cynical Army officer, is given a bogus dishonorable discharge and sent undercover to hook up with Japanese sympathizers on the eve of Pearl Harbor. |
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943, 127 min.): World War II drama about the Merchant Marine and Navy gun crews who did battle with enemy submarines and risked their lives to deliver supplies and munitions to allied troops. |
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Passage to Marseille (1944, 109 min.): The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
DVD, standard version, dual-layer format; Dolby digital, mono. |
| Language |
Closed captioned. |
| Subject |
Truck drivers -- California -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Merchant marine -- United States -- Videodiscs.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Local Subject |
BINGE BOX
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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War films.
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Videorecordings for the hearing impaired.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Macaulay, Richard, 1909-1969.
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Walsh, Raoul, 1887-1980.
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Raft, George.
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Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962.
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Lupino, Ida, 1918-1995.
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Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957.
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Massey, Raymond.
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Hale, Alan, 1892-1950.
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Rains, Claude, 1889-1967.
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Curtiz, Michael, 1888-1962.
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| Standard No. |
883929235551 |
| Music No. |
3000041964 Warner Home Video |
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65841 Warner Home Video |
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67987 Warner Home Video |
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67988 Warner Home Video |
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67990 Warner Home Video |
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