The Hitch-Hiker (1953) [Film Noir] [Edmond O'Brien] 480p

"The Hitch-Hiker" is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico. The movie was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino, and her husband Collier Young, based on a story by "Out of the Past" screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring, who was blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit. The film is based on the true story of Billy Cook, a psychopathic murderer. Two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on a fishing trip pick up a hitchhiker named Emmett Myers (William Talman), who turns out to be a psychopath who has committed multiple murders.

It has been called the first film noir directed by a woman, despite Norwegian director Edith Carlmar having made a noir already back in 1949 ("Døden er et kjærtegn"). The director of photography was RKO Pictures regular Nicholas Musuraca. In 1998, "The Hitch-Hiker" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Plot:
As the film begins, a man is shown hitchhiking and being picked up by a succession of people who he robs and kills. A suspect, Emmett Myers (Talman), is publicized in newspaper headlines.

Two friends, Roy Collins (O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Lovejoy) are driving in southern California toward a planned fishing trip at the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up Myers, who pulls a gun and takes them hostage.

Myers forces them to journey over dirt roads into the Baja California Peninsula toward Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California to Guaymas.

Myers terrorizes and humiliates the two men, at one point forcing Bowen to shoot a tin can out of the hand of Collins, standing a long distance away. One night they attempt to escape, during which Collins hurts his ankle.

When the car is damaged, he forces them to continue on foot despite Collins' injury. Myers ridicules the two men for missing opportunities to escape for fear the other might be killed. He boasts, "you can get anything at the end of a gun."[6]

Police in the U.S. and Mexico are hunting Myers, and authorities know that he has abducted Collins and Bowen. They hear that on the radio and fear for their lives. To mislead Myers, the police purposely alter information to suggest they think Myers is still in the United States.

Arriving at Santa Rosalía, Myers tries to conceal his identity by forcing Collins to wear his clothes. Myers. Discovering the regular ferry to Guaymas has burned, he hires a fishing boat. Local residents discover his identity and contact authorities, who are waiting at the pier. After a shootout and scuffle, Myers is arrested and Collins and Bowen are freed unharmed.

Cast
Edmond O'Brien as Roy Collins
Frank Lovejoy as Gilbert Bowen
William Talman as Emmett Myers
José Torvay as Captain Alvarado
Wendell Niles as Himself (Radio Announcer).
Jean Del Val as Inspector General
Clark Howat as Government Agent
Natividad Vacío as Jose
Rodney Bell as William Johnson

Source: "The Hitch-Hiker"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) [Film Noir] [Edmond O'Brien] 480p

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