The Hitch-Hiker with Edmond O'Brien: DVD Cover

    The Hitch-Hiker Director: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/26/1999
    • Original Release: 1953
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 51,333

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    Side #1
    0. Chapters
    1. Titles [2:10]
    2. A Hitch-Hike Slayer [1:33]
    3. Going Fishing [2:23]
    4. A Hitch-Hiker [3:54]
    5. At Gunpoint [2:49]
    6. Destination: Santa Rosalia [2:44]
    7. Target Practice [2:48]
    8. "Turn on the Radio" [2:25]
    9. Camping Out [2:21]
    10. Grocery Shopping [3:52]
    11. The Latest News [5:10]
    12. Mechanical Problems [2:31]
    13. Police Investigators [1:50]
    14. A Race Against Death [7:04]
    15. The Abandoned Airstrip [3:09]
    16. Lunch Break [4:01]
    17. On Foot [2:52]
    18. A Change of Clothes [4:41]
    19. A Boat for Hire [6:03]
    20. Waterfront [6:10]

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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, All Movie Guide

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