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Daniel Mainwaring took this story right out of the headlines of the day, penning this true story of a mass murderer who was eventually executed in San Quentin's gas chamber. Released during McCarthy's witch-hunt, Mainwaring was not given credit because Howard R. Hughes, who produced it under RKO, refused to give credit to any "radicals." The story is that of two men on a fishing trip who pick up a hitchhiker. He turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who has committed multiple murders, a sociopath who hates humanity because of his own abuse as a child. He also has an affliction which terrifies these two men: an eye which is permanently open, thereby never allowing them to know if he is really asleep or just faking it--something which he does with regularity to scare them...letting them take off and then meeting up with them just as they feel they have escaped from him. A tense thriller skillfully directed by the only female director of the time, Ida Lupino, it is a suspenseful tale of terror on the highways. Tana Hobart

Product Details

• UPC: 089218418197
• Source: ALPHA VIDEO
• Presentation: B&W
• Time: 1:10:00
• Sales Rank: 35,162

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:

• D.O.a./the Hitch-Hiker
• Ultimate Film Noir Collection
• Film Noir: Five Classics from the Studio Vaults
• Legends of Hollywood: Film Noir
• Crime Busters Collection

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