Night Ride

Date: 1937
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Production Company: British & Dominions Film Corporation

Stars: Julian Vedey, Jimmy Hanley, Wally Patch, Joan Ponsford, Frank Petley, Elizabeth Kent, Blake Dorn, Kenneth Buckley
Location(s): Buckinghamshire

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Sacked from a crooked haulage company, a driver starts his own transport business but his former boss soon has plans to take it over.

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With his mate Alf Higgins sitting beside him, lorry driver Dick Benson follows car being driven erratically by his boss's daughter Ruth Wilson. The road appears to be real enough location but is impossible to find.

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After being fired by Arthur Wilson following an unjustified complaint by Ruth, Dick goes into the haulage business with financial backing from restaurateur Tony Spinelli. The background buildings belong to Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

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Spinelli & Benson's business grows with more lorries added to the fleet. Pinewood Studios at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.