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The Hitch-Hiker [1953] (Region 1) (NTSC) [DVD] [US Import]

DVD ~ Edmond O'Brien
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  • Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Sam Hayes
  • Directors: Ida Lupino
  • Writers: Ida Lupino, Collier Young, Daniel Mainwaring
  • Producers: Christian Nyby, Collier Young
  • Format: Black & White, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Kino
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Jan 2000
  • Run Time: 71 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305683875
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 117,198 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Its OK, 12 Jul 2009
By Alex da Silva (Lytham St. Annes, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hitch-Hiker [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Roy (Edmond O'Brien) and Gilbert (Frank Lovejoy) are on their way to a
fishing trip when they pick up a serial killer hitch-hiker Emmett Myers
(William Talman). For the rest of the film, they are under his control
as he dictates their journey and the routines that need to be
undertaken. Emmett also likes to psychologically torture his two
captives with Roy coming out the worst. Meanwhile, the police search is
closing in.

Emmett's paralyzed eye is used to good effect as he cannot close it and
sleeps with his eye open. There are some good scenes but there is not
enough suspense or tension. He has a gun but we are forced to think why
he doesn't use it. Surely, he would have just killed the two occupants
of the car and stolen the car for himself as he had done on every other
previous occasion. Perhaps he liked Roy and Gilbert...??...

At the end of the film, I thought it was OK but nothing more. The cast are good and I'll keep the film to watch again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping little thriller from Ida Lupino, 22 Jun 2009
By Humpty Dumpty (Wall St, Upton Snodsbury) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hitch-Hiker [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Interesting that the fine actress-turned-director Ida Lupino chose for her fourth directorial outing a tough thriller with never a woman in sight. Her three previous pictures (Outrage 1950, Hard, Fast and Beautiful 1951 and The Bigamist 1953) had, if not been 'women's pictures', then dealt with topics likely to greatly interest women, and two of them had been social comment pieces. Lupino was, though, an independently-minded and bright woman, and maybe she was deliberately extending herself into male territory here.

This brief (72 minutes) thriller still today packs a punch, being tense, well made and well acted. It was filmed in the space of little more than a month largely on location. While the scenes in the car are always effectively cramped and menacing, it's interesting how the deserted and often desert locations often appear alternately claustrophobic and agoraphobic, mirroring the paucity of normality in the relationship that reluctantly grows between the psychotic hitch-hiker (William Talman) and his two victims. The changing relationship between the two victims, as they resist the every-man-for-himself urge, is also carefully shown.

A surprising feature of the screenplay is the way Talman wants and perhaps needs to hold on to his victims to the end in lieu of killing them en route; there's a sense of his wishing to prolong their agony, but even more his isolation from the normal world is such that even this relationship achieved at the barrel of a gun is better than none. Ida Lupino suggests this disturbing possibility without pushing it.

The suspense is maintained up to penultimate minute, though I felt an uncertainty in the director's grip on the material in the very last scene which is somewhat anti-climactic.

William Talman takes the acting honours. He looks quite like Lee J. Cobb and has something of Cobb's brutal force as he terrorizes his victims and pushes himself to the limit.

The print quality of the release is barely adequate, no more, but that should deter no one from watching this brief but very good film noir.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 1953 Noir, 17 Oct 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hitch-Hiker [DVD] [1953] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Yes, t'was directed by a woman in 1953, and it is a great movie. Wholeheartedly recommended.
Dr Gonzo Clarke.
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