FILM Destination: Monterey Wharf

THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT

Action film about competition in the trucking business; Scenes filmed at Wharf No. 2 in Monterey (Hauling fish by truck).

George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan

Raoul Walsh, and Warner Bros Films

TIGER SHARK

Action-packed melodrama — once referred to as an early vision of “JAWS” — about a Portuguese tune fisherman who marries a girl out of Pity, then sees her fall in love with his best friend (A popular Warner Bros plot Gambit); The action comes from sharks that attack fishermen; Scenes filmed along Cannery Row and Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey; The footage was interspersed with a few shots in San Diego and/or San Pedro Harbor, the action was described as “San Diego.”

Edward G. Robinson

Howard Hawks, and Warner Bros Films