Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychopathic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The host... (Full plot summary below)
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Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychopathic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.
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| New York TimesA.H. WeilerBoth Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy are experts as stalwart men gripped in a situation they never made. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThis hell-for-leather 1953 noir demonstrates Ida Lupino's facility with actors and flawless pacing. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzTalman's performance as a sadistic sleaze was powerful. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongIf they gave awards for holding a gun in every single scene of a film from start to finish, (William) Talman would have won. |
| The DissolveMike D'AngeloThere's no estrogen whatsoever in The Hitch-Hiker, as spare and muscular a picture as the 1950s ever produced. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThis suspenseful film noir is superbly acted and sharply helmed by Ida Lupino, one of the few women directors in Hollywood of the 1950s. |
| User ReviewTony PTaut, tense and spare thriller. Not a wasted word. You don't need blood and vulgarity to make an effective thriller, just talent. Ida Lupino had that in spades. |
| User ReviewJayden CIda Lupino's epic film noir, did that sound film reviewish enough? Brilliant. Much better than any Hitchcock rubbish - especially Psycho. What a piece of shit that was. |
| User ReviewTina DI purchased this movie in a collection of B Film Noir films for a very low price. This movie I would have paid upwards of $30 for (had I known about it) It is expertly put together, filmed, acted and directed. The opening sequence grabbed and the villain truly scared me from then on. A great example of the Road Movie genre's felxibility and potential. If you have a chance to, see it. |
| User Reviewashley ci loved the rigs!! i want to drive one just to be doing it!! |
