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<blockquote data-quote="Jock Ewing Fan" data-source="post: 411717" data-attributes="member: 40536"><p>"The Hitchhiker" (1953)</p><p></p><p>William Talman, better known for his role as Hamilton Berger in "Perry Mason"\</p><p></p><p>gives a superb performance as the villainous hitchhiker</p><p></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p></p><p><em><strong>"The Hitch-Hiker</strong></em> is a 1953 American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film" target="_blank">independent</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-screeningamericanindiefilm-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir" target="_blank">film noir</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_film" target="_blank">thriller</a> co-written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lupino" target="_blank">Ida Lupino</a>, and starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_O%27Brien" target="_blank">Edmond O'Brien</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Talman_(actor)" target="_blank">William Talman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lovejoy" target="_blank">Frank Lovejoy</a>. Based on the 1950 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_spree" target="_blank">killing spree</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal)" target="_blank">Billy Cook</a>, the film follows two friends who are taken <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage" target="_blank">hostage</a> by a murderous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiking" target="_blank">hitchhiker</a> during an automobile trip to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" target="_blank">Mexico</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-Paste-3" target="_blank">[3]</a></p><p></p><p><em>The Hitch-Hiker</em> was the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman. It was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry" target="_blank">National Film Registry</a> as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> "</p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jock Ewing Fan, post: 411717, member: 40536"] "The Hitchhiker" (1953) William Talman, better known for his role as Hamilton Berger in "Perry Mason"\ gives a superb performance as the villainous hitchhiker From Wikipedia: [I][B]"The Hitch-Hiker[/B][/I] is a 1953 American [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film']independent[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-screeningamericanindiefilm-2'][2][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir']film noir[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_film']thriller[/URL] co-written and directed by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lupino']Ida Lupino[/URL], and starring [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_O%27Brien']Edmond O'Brien[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Talman_(actor)']William Talman[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lovejoy']Frank Lovejoy[/URL]. Based on the 1950 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_spree']killing spree[/URL] of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal)']Billy Cook[/URL], the film follows two friends who are taken [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage']hostage[/URL] by a murderous [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiking']hitchhiker[/URL] during an automobile trip to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico']Mexico[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-Paste-3'][3][/URL] [I]The Hitch-Hiker[/I] was the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman. It was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry']National Film Registry[/URL] as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-4'][4][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-5'][5][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker#cite_note-6'][6][/URL] " [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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