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The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 American independent film noir thriller co-written and directed by Ida Lupino, and starring Edmond O'Brien, William Talman and Frank Lovejoy. Based on the 1950 killing spree of Billy Cook , the film follows two friends who are taken hostage by a murderous hitchhiker during an automobile trip to Mexico .
The Hitch-Hiker: Directed by Ida Lupino. With Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay. Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Sep 15, 2012 · It has been called the first film noir directed by a woman, despite Norwegian director Edith Carlmar having made a noir already back in 1949 ("Døden er et kjærtegn"). The director of...
The Hitch-Hiker is a very stripped-down take on a very straightforward premise - two men held at gunpoint on a road trip - and doesn't carry much in the way of moral...
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The much imitated The Hitch-Hiker remains a gripping suspense ordeal. Ida Lupino and Collier Young wrote the final screenplay, but the original story for The Hitch-Hiker was by Daniel Mainwaring, who as Geoffrey Homes wrote the sublime RKO noir Out of the Past.
The fact that The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino, is said to be the only ‘true noir’ directed by a woman, only adds to this fudged erotic fluff. You’ll never forget the end, as the two men walk slowly into the fog — one putting his arm around the other as the dissolve kicks out.
Oct 1, 2018 · The production of The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) began with a story written by Robert Joseph, titled “The Persuader”, in which two ex-army buddies on a fishing road trip to Mexico pick up a shadowy male hitch-hiker on a deserted road.
