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     The Hitch-Hiker
1953  NR  DRAMA  1h 11min
CAST— Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, Jose Torvay
MUSIC— Leith Stevens  DIRECTOR— Ida Lupino

     Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers? Well, common sense would tell you not to pick them up on the side of the road, right? Guess what? Your mom and common sense were right. This film chronicles the panic-stricken journey of two fishermen driving through Mexico who stop to, you guessed it, pick up a homicidal maniac on a dark deserted road. He then directs them on pathways throughout the desert to avoid police, all the while demonstrating his maniacal tendencies. Of course, coming from ‘53, the shocks are less intense and the gore is pretty much non-existent, giving us nothing like the B-grade
Hitcher movies (The Hitcher [1986/2006]), but it still delivers solid entertainment, if only for an hour or so. Deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
OUR RATING— ** ½