The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Country: US
Technical: bw 71m
Director: Ida Lupino
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Synopsis:
Two friends on a fishing trip are car-jacked by a ruthless escaped criminal, who has already killed three times and who wants to be taken down the Lower California peninsular in Mexico.
Review:
Lupino's hard nosed and suspenseful B picture begins in Noir fashion with the two friends making a slightly immoral decision and then being made to pay by a trigger happy thug who treats them like slaves under sentence of death. Far from overpowering their aggressor, who sleeps with one eye open, they do little better than hobble themselves running away in the night, before ultimately being saved through no doing of their own. Not that they are unlikeable; just that a female director determines them to be ordinary Joes like you and me, instead of heroes. Great locations in Lone Pine and Death Valley, and lots of un-subtitled Spanish (or Mexican, as the villain terms it).
Country: US
Technical: bw 71m
Director: Ida Lupino
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Synopsis:
Two friends on a fishing trip are car-jacked by a ruthless escaped criminal, who has already killed three times and who wants to be taken down the Lower California peninsular in Mexico.
Review:
Lupino's hard nosed and suspenseful B picture begins in Noir fashion with the two friends making a slightly immoral decision and then being made to pay by a trigger happy thug who treats them like slaves under sentence of death. Far from overpowering their aggressor, who sleeps with one eye open, they do little better than hobble themselves running away in the night, before ultimately being saved through no doing of their own. Not that they are unlikeable; just that a female director determines them to be ordinary Joes like you and me, instead of heroes. Great locations in Lone Pine and Death Valley, and lots of un-subtitled Spanish (or Mexican, as the villain terms it).
Country: US
Technical: bw 71m
Director: Ida Lupino
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Synopsis:
Two friends on a fishing trip are car-jacked by a ruthless escaped criminal, who has already killed three times and who wants to be taken down the Lower California peninsular in Mexico.
Review:
Lupino's hard nosed and suspenseful B picture begins in Noir fashion with the two friends making a slightly immoral decision and then being made to pay by a trigger happy thug who treats them like slaves under sentence of death. Far from overpowering their aggressor, who sleeps with one eye open, they do little better than hobble themselves running away in the night, before ultimately being saved through no doing of their own. Not that they are unlikeable; just that a female director determines them to be ordinary Joes like you and me, instead of heroes. Great locations in Lone Pine and Death Valley, and lots of un-subtitled Spanish (or Mexican, as the villain terms it).