The Hitch-Hiker
by Ida Lupino
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Actor: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, Jos? Torvay, Sam Hayes, William TalmanDirector: Ida Lupino
Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca
Writer: Ida Lupino
Producer: Christian Nyby
Producer: Collier Young
Writer: Collier Young
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring
Writer: Robert L. Joseph
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
Movie Reviews of The Hitch-Hiker
Movie Review: a great oldy
Summary: 4 Stars
this movie is filmed with alot of suspence. I remember seeing it as kid on the old new york stations. The movie was around the start of never pick up hitch-hiker days. And its real hard to get a ride nowadays. (Espiecially in the desert) Believe me im an old hitch-hiker so this I do know to be true. And you cant blame the people with all the crazy's out there. (Its even 10 times worse today.) So if you want to see a good movie. (Espiecially on a rainy night.) Then this movie will surely intertest you. I bet for sure it keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Summary of The Hitch-Hiker
Ida Lupino, Hollywood's sole female filmmaker of the 1950s, directs an all-male cast in a taut, 70-minute thriller. Frank Lovejoy and Edmund O'Brien are two war buddies taking a break from the wives for a Mexican fishing trip; a hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a crazed killer wanted in nine states (William Talman, later the perennially defeated district attorney on Perry Mason) who forces them at gunpoint to drive him through the desert. Talman's Everett Myers is a fascinatingly abstract creation, filmed by Lupino first as a discorporate flurry of hands and feet, then as a satanic figure whose grinning, key-lighted face seems to float by itself in space. With his paralyzed right eye (he sleeps with it wide open), Myers may represent the return of the fascist evil the two men confronted during the war; he may also represent something inherently violent in the American male that, having been liberated by the war, has to be faced down and defeated by the two vets before they can return to a normal life. Lupino's use of the desert setting, rich with associations of nuclear devastation, seems to look forward to the science fiction films that would flourish later in the decade. --Dave KehrDrama DVD Video
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