The Hitch-hiker Reviews
August 26, 2020
Anyone interested in mystery thrillers of the past can have a great time seeing how this one plays out.
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| Original Score: 8/10
August 19, 2020
What's distinctive about The Hitch-Hiker is the sensitivity it has for the trauma involved.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
July 20, 2020
This film noir, directed by Ida Lupino (the first woman to direct a film of the genre), has a story with a promising start that, slowly, loses its intrigue. [Full review in Spanish]
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| Original Score: 6/10
September 28, 2019
Lupino's atmospheric direction and powerhouse performances make this worth catching.
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| Original Score: 3/4
August 7, 2019
A lean, mean, nasty piece of work that deserves to be rediscovered.
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| Original Score: 3/4
March 5, 2018
A perilous and grim film noir entry.
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| Original Score: 3/5
March 5, 2018
This hell-for-leather 1953 noir demonstrates Ida Lupino's facility with actors and flawless pacing.
March 5, 2018
Lupino draws a performance of crackling malevolence from William Talman, as the serial killer physically and mentally scarred by his abusive childhood. Equally authentic is the impotent terror of weekend fishermen Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy.
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| Original Score: 4/5
November 5, 2013
If they gave awards for holding a gun in every single scene of a film from start to finish, (William) Talman would have won.
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| Original Score: 7/10
October 22, 2013
There's no estrogen whatsoever in The Hitch-Hiker, as spare and muscular a picture as the 1950s ever produced.
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| Original Score: 3/5
October 31, 2006
Both Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy are experts as stalwart men gripped in a situation they never made.
June 24, 2006
Taut, tough, and entirely without macho-glorification, it's a gem, with first-class performances from its three protagonists, deftly characterised without resort to clich.
April 6, 2006
Original Score: 3/5
June 12, 2005
This suspenseful film noir is superbly acted and sharply helmed by Ida Lupino, one of the few women directors in Hollywood of the 1950s.
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| Original Score: B
December 10, 2004
Talman's performance as a sadistic sleaze was powerful.
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| Original Score: A-
November 19, 2004
Original Score: 4/5
October 3, 2002
Original Score: 4/5