Monday, June 20, 2011

The Hitch-hiker

Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien, William Talmadge w/d Ida Lupino

Tight little noir from 1953. Two old friends on a fishing trip pick up a hitch-hiker who turns out to be an escaped killer. The three-day cat and mouse game between them is tense and well-directed. Some facets creak by today's standards but in its day this film went a long way toward discouraging the practice for most people.

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