The Hitch-Hiker (Noirvember)

Name: The Hitch-Hiker (Noirvember)
Start: 2024-11-17T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 28 Amity St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002

Schedule

Sun Nov 17 2024 at 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

28 Amity St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002 | Amherst, MA

Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), THE HITCH-HIKER is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s.
Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He forces them, at gunpoint, to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert.
Renegade filmmaking at its finest, THE HITCH-HIKER was independently produced, which allowed Lupino and ex-husband/producer Collier Young to work from a treatment by blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that was too brutal for the major studios to even consider.