The Drive by Night

For me, this is the picture that introduced me to miss Ann Sheridan. According to the accompanying featurette, miss Sheridan was known at the time as the "ummph girl". I was just transfixed from the moment she appears in this story as a waitress that the brothers(Raft and Bogart) meet at a roadside truckers diner. Initially I slipped this disc into the player thinking it was going to be a Bogart movie and Humphrey does indeed have many good scenes but it is really George Raft and Ida Lupino who are the real stars here. A very good story, a great conclusion, an excellent making-of featurette and the extreeeeemly pleasing to the eye Ann Sheridan!!                                   2/7/08