From A.I. Bezzerides novel, written by Jerry Wald and Richard Macauley. Packed with atmosphere of the dirty and unforgiving but comradely world of truckers, with George Raft, Ida Lupino (oozing femme fatale), Ann Sheridan (always great), Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, Charles Halton (uncredited).
The stuff with the automatic doors is very sophisticated, and funny at the same time. She cracks up a bit too easily.
Produced by Mark Hellinger for Hal B. Wallis. Music by Adolph Deutsch, photographed by Arthur Edeson. It was a big hit.
Ann Sheridan was certainly worked hard by her initial studio Paramount, which put her in 13 films in 1934 and 12 in 1935 (under her real name Clara Lou Sheridan)! It was in 1936, when she moved to Warners, that she really got going.
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