Like it? what,?really? absolutely loved it, You got 100k stripes for this one 'The Hitchhiker', the forever piece of noir time machine classic from beginning to end, The offensive line- up of Frank Lovejoy, Walter Talman, Edmon O'Brien all time masterpiece right here!!! You got gold bars for this one, do another end zone., what else can you pull out of the closet?
We all should know that Ida Lupino was a fantastic actress, but here she shows how great she was at directing, and writing. In just a little over an hour she builds the tension ,and suspense to a boiling point that grips you to the end, that some directors (today) can't do in 2,&1/2 hrs. The acting is fantastic, and the camera work is spot on. Thank you Timeless Classic for showing this gem. Bob. G
Another great classic movie to watch. You may also like these other great movies such as: The Hitchiker, Queen Bee, Wicked Woman, Whatever happen to Baby Jane, Key Largo, The Diafent One's, A patch of Blue, The heat of the night, Borderline, The Grapes of the Wrath and Caged are some of my most favorites. 😊
Ida Lupino really an extraordinarily talented person and she came across as being down to earth. Great cast, with Edmond O'Brien always top notch. Thanks for posting this.
Where did they intend to go? Hiking in choco mountains or fishing?? Frank loveyoj says in beggining: “fishing was idea” … so why were the going toward mountains in becgining?
Loved this movie. As a kid in the 80's I watched Hitcher and I knew I'd never hitchhike. You'd think this would've done the same for kids in the 50's and 60's but coming from my dad hitchhiking was pretty common in the 60's and 70's.
William Talman said after this movie came out he was in his convertible at a stop light and a guy asked him if he was The Hitchhiker. He said yes, and the guy punched him in the face! He took this as a great compliment!
What a great movie. So much of it was shot in the claustrophobic atmsophere of a single car. Kept waiting for one of the two heroes to get control of that rifle and they kept leaving me hanging. The idea of the psycho batshit villain with a ‘dead eye’ or whatever that never closed so the two heroes never knew when he was sleeping was genius. Had a lot of fun.
We had women doing a lot of good/great things before 1953 because they also had the freedom to chase their dreams if they choose. But I never heard of this one. :)
WOW, that was so intense! That was excellently executed and I can say, it was so true to human nature of how a person, rational people would act in a situation like this. No cowards here. So marvelously written, filmed, and directed. Bravo!
Edmond O'Brien is an excellent actor. Met Edmond in a barber shop in West Los Angeles, CA. His favorite movies? DOA; The Hitch Hiker; Seven Days in May. It was a privilege to share with him [his] takes on film noir. He was the greatest of film noir actors.
He's got to be one of my all-time favorite male performers of that era: he wasn't conventionally leading-man handsome, but he had such solid presence on film. A wonderful, natural actor.
@@cynthialyman2636 I agree with you about him not being conventionally leading-man handsome but he sure did have great magnetism. Have you seen Another Part of the Forest? He has sideburns in that role and it makes him more handsome/sexier.
@@jeffeastwood15 l have, and l think it showcases Edmond in his prime. He was downright delectable in that period piece: All man, a nice voice for delivery, and overall a very versatile actor.
I agree. We need more strong male actors like him. I barely recognized him in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He was so different from the other types of characters I was use to seeing him play. Yet, his performance was pure perfection.
@@kurtb8474 A gifted actor, for sure. His break out performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton was also memorable. O Brien was the consummate pro. The more l watch him, the more l am amazed.
2 👍👍 in honor of Siskel and Ebert. Ida Lupino was a great all around film, tv and radio talent: actor, writer, director, producer...she did it all at a high level. The Hitch-Hiker and Outrage are both designated films in the National Film Registry, a great honor and testament to her talented contributions. My personal favs were her acting gigs in High Sierra and The Bigamist. She was gorgeous, and fit the femme fatale noir roles perfectly.
I like how the prelude to the movie says, 'after 70 mins' and accurately so. The film is gripping and time flies. The movies of today could take a lesson or two.
A great ride... no pun intended. I fell in love with Ida in 1960... I was 13 and she was so much woman. Thanks for sharing this classic. It is no wonder that her work still stands the test.
Thank you for posting these movies. I love these old classics. They were made when films were still an "art" form. The actors were great, the scripts were great, the stories were great and original, the cinematography was great and the directors were great. Movies today have weak scripts, regurgitated stories, mediocre actors and acting and it seems like one person writes all the stories. I am sick and tired of movies that inject the same old Hollywood agenda and propaganda that most the time have nothing to do with the story being told. As with all things today, when so much money is involved, the once "art" form has become a "science", meaning always the same formula. OK, great CGI, but so what!. These old classic movies did so much more with less than one tenth the budget and no CGI. How sad and disappointing, except now I spend more time watching classics that new movies.
Mean Mr. Mustard I have not been to the movies in 20 yrs. Nothing worthwhile watching. I love these old movies. They had more character to them. No nudity, swearing, whatever else they can come up with. This is not a great movie but I enjoyed it. I have watched about 6 of them and they are very entertaining.
Film is still an art form, you all speak like Hollywood blockbusters are the only movies that are released. Whilst this is a great pictures, there are a lot of films that are undeniable pieces of art released every year.
Interesting...the lyrics do seem to reflect this general plot ...Morrison was well read, and I believe a tortured genius. "This is the end ...my only friend" 😳
Ida Lupino was a national treasure. All of her directoral efforts were outstanding; often with small budgets and second-tier casts like Lovejoy and O'Brien. Both of whom were always excellent.
Used to love driving those old "three on the tree" cars and trucks-- after the tractor those were my first driving experiences. LOVE these old movies-- thanks for posting for all to enjoy. : )
A woman who can drive a tractor is #1 in my books! My father had an old Dodge that was great, but his favorite older car was a 1955 Desoto with a Hemi engine. The last of the 6 volt systems, it had a lot of power, a lot of comfortable seating ( no seat belts ) and it just floated down the road.
Leith Stevens was a great musical director not well remembered these days. But if you listen to Vintage Radio Shows, you will hear them credit him for the music in many of the popular radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio.
Awesome flick. Prior to watching it all I knew of William Talman was the character of prosecutor Hamilton Burger in the Perry Mason series. In this movie he does a great job of portraying a menacing maniac.
I believe there were movies that she directed before this but she was one of the very first women directors.... also fun for me because they talked about San Felipe which is where I live
I was looking through films noir, and choosing can be tough because some are very good while some turn out to be not at all good. When I saw this was a Lupino I knew quality wasn't going to be an issue. She's always good.
Great Noir - one of my favorites. ... Finely directed psychological thriller, with well-timed & directed psychological brickmanship among ALL characters - the hostages, the hostage taker, and even the authorities manipulating news radio dispatches! ... NIFTY PREMISE - WHO IS HOLDING WHOM AS HOSTAGE?, INCLUDING THE HOSTAGE-FRIENDS WITH EACH ANOTHER!! - BRAVO!
Although interesting, we should realize that hollywood has always come from a different premise than true American philosophy. The destruction of moral American values has become vast, with a lot having to do with hollywood and our education system today. The way Film Noir does it, is by taking the perspective of the dark criminal, and putting him/her in a light of consideration.
I read that Ida really knew how to handle a male crew. Instead of giving them orders, she would say to them, dears, mother has a problem here, how would you work it out? She would then allow them to make suggestions and to contribute.
My father and my auntie used to hitchhike everywhere back in the 50s. It was safer back then. Do I recommend it today? NO WAY. This was great noir. Loved it!!
this is one of the greatest movies ever made , it's amazing that it has remained in " public domain " all these years, directed by one of the most beautiful and smartest woman to ever set foot in hollywood Ida Lupino , it's true , they just don't make em like they used to .
Your absolutely right Jeff D too many people have never even heard of Ida she was one of the greats ..... Actress and later producer and director and also writer✌️
@@rickdaniels3471 Ida Lupino was also an inventor. One of her most famous inventions was spread spectrum communications, whereby secret transmissions skip all over the band so that they can't be intercepted.
My reason for watching this is twofold. I am a fan of old radio drama. Lovejoy was Randy Stone in Night Beat and O'Brien was on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. And William Talman adds a perfect cherry on top of the sundae.
Wonderful movie.The phycho villian acted brilliantly. And the two actors acted brilliantly too, their expression for the fear of the gun. Trying to escape but the phycho's eyes always following them. Overall brilliant film.
Thought to watch this before bed ... not a good idea. You get so engrossed that you must watch to the end. Edge of your seat intense flick right from the start with the psychological tormenting and taunting of his victims. Wow. Highly recommend watching.
Nice cast, with a real robotic meany ("keys"..."get down"...) with weak moments too, and two convincingly bewildered victims. Very efficient music too, accentuating the drama. Great job by Lupino, prooving already in the early 1950's with brio that women too could achieve great results as a producer. Nothing surprising today, but in those days... The movie surely earns its status ! Benoit (Ben) from Antwerp Belgium
You'd think his hand would cramp holding that gun on them hours at a time. Guess he's just too tough! 😄 And ALWAYS cuff the hands behind a guy, not in front. Wonder if police really always cuffed the hands in front back then? 🤔 Thanks for posting an excellent movie!
Fantastic, outstanding film noir with the man you love to hate Hamilton Burger and the Hitchhiker in this movie. A superb performance by William Talman. He got his "Oscar" on some road of Los Angeles by a driver who saw him while they both stopped and he got out and punched William still feeling what most audiences felt toward the Hitchhiker!!!(He didn't receive the Oscar though he should have.)
This movie was inspired by true events. One can also read- The Mosser Massacre, by Glenn Shirley. It also is why hitchhiking is illegal many places.This case was the largest west of the Mississippi man hunt at the time.
@Fallin Leaves When you stick out your thumb and get picked up for free by whoever sees you that's hitchhiking. For a couple of years in the 70s that's how I commuted to work every morning. Uber is nothing like that. Who ever heard of needing an account to hitchhike?
I'm glad you mentioned that. I love the one where she is obsessed with film images of herself as a younger star and ends up disappearing into the celluloid memories. Such a multi-talented woman.
The Hitch-Hiker is regarded as the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.The film noir genre generally refers to mystery and crime drama films produced from the early 1940s to the late 1950s
Shows what you can do with a no budget, a good director, good actors and creativity. Keep you on your toes for the whole thing. Only thing is, how did they ever get back to the states?
Dammit! I was looking forward to seeing how a hamster 🐹 saved the day... maybe crawl up the bad guys pants to snack on the berries? But lamster? now I have to look for a lamb instead? 🐑 Sheeesh 🙄
Really an excellent film. The plot and setting are unusual, being set in the country not a city. No female leads, but it works well. Love Frank Lovejoy and Edmond O’Brien in this, but the real surprise is Talman. He does the psycho killer thing better than I expected from Ham Burger. ;) Another great noir under Ida Lupino’s direction. Thanks for the upload, really enjoyable! :)
It was an unusual story. I thought it was kind of BS at some points, especially when they didm't jump him in the bar toward the end? But there was some decent acting. For a better but similar film, I'd suggest the 1945 *Detour*
In the beginning the two men should have looked for a way to jump him before they got too far. One could have grabbed his hand from behind while the other quickly came to help him. Overall a very good film. Highly suspencefull.
Where did they intend to go? Hiking in choco mountains or fishing?? Frank loveyoj says in beggining: “fishing was idea” … so why were the going toward mountains in becgining?
A good chance was when he was holding the rifle to shoot the can out of his friend's hand. Keep pretending to focus, 'stressed' then quickly swing the rifle around into Myers's head
Another excellent 'OLDIE but GOODIE' from Timeless Classics. Thank you very much for posting all these Awesome Vintage Flicks. SuperSniperSal The GUNNY USMC Disabled Vet
This actor died of lung cancer in 1968. Several months before he died, he did a TV public service announcement to discourage anyone from smoking. The commercial ran even after he died. It was kind of eerie.
The Hitch-Hiker is regarded as the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant
I know you wrote your comment 10 months ago but I wanted to reply. As soon as I saw that Ida Lupino who's in this movie I wanted to watch it. I did know this was her first time directing a film. I know she directed at least one of the movie and was surprised when I read that. Thanks for the info.
Wow, that was really amazing to watch. You were kept on your toes the entire film. So well done and the quality and sound were fantastic. You will not regret watching this at all. You will regret though if you did not watch it.
I noticed that Ida Lupino had co wrote the screenplay and directed the movie too. Great old classic film noir. Good direction from that lovely actress Ida. She directed episodes of The Twilight Zone and Gilligan's Island too.
WideTubeVision4 great director Ida Lupino.......... good movie too, she also appeared n directed a few episodes of Boris Karloff's tv series "thriller".
WideTubeVision4 great director Ida Lupino.......... good movie too, she also appeared n directed a few episodes of Boris Karloff's tv series "thriller".
WideTubeVision4 great director Ida Lupino.......... good movie too, she also appeared n directed a few episodes of Boris Karloff's tv series "thriller".
I was able to read the whole intro with time to spare! I sure wish they still did that. I read pretty quickly, but I find myself pausing or missing the end that is flashed across the screen. I seem to notice little odd things like that and wonder why has “it” been sped up so fast? Who can read that fast?!!
Good movie! One thing not believable though---his gun wouldn't stay upright if he ever actually fell asleep. Would be a dead giveaway (no pun intended). The actor who plays the psycho does a good job. What a big man with a gun. Like all psychos, stupid, a coward, and nutty as a fruitcake. You're essentially dealing with a mad dog.
I'm not so sure about that. I've had co-workers who could sit upright, or even stand, and doze for 15 - 20 minutes at a time and it would be hard to tell unless you looked at them very closely.. The psycho in this movie was so high-strung he was probably a very light sleeper as well.
I owed a 53 Chrysler .. they looked very much the same as the Plymouth .. flat head six cylinder .. it was like driving your couch down the road .. Smooth .. did you see how easy it was to enter Mexico .. no wall back then
Your kids obviously didn't have to worry about competition for unskilled labor work and YOU probably benefited from super-cheap labor as a result. Well done.
Saw the whole film on my phone. Kept watching, keeping tab of the parts where the guys could have either run off or tackled the guy. At the bar where the hitch hiker sets down the rifle was the perfect opportunity...They could have also made a run for it while stopping for food at the first Mexican town.
Wow! What a suspenseful film; I have just about given up on so called modern movies. No distractions with color, fancy special effects, just a good plot, good actors and no need for gratuitous sex scenes.
I am only 40, but have grown up on BW movies and of course watched the best movies till mid 90's, coz after that I hardly found anything worthwhile...the thrill and suspense of BW movies, Awesome !!!!! What a character this Myers, gawd, I watched the whole movie without breathing properly.....
It takes a little effort to find worthwhile modern movies to watch, especially if b&w. Some are out there...Im thinking about Johnny Depp in "Dead Man"; Lynch's, "The Elephant Man" and "Eraserhead"; Spielberg's, "Schindler's List"; Frank Miller's, "Sin City"; the Cohen Bros, "The Man Who Wasn't There"; Clooney's, "Good Night and Good Luck"; most recently Branaughs, "Belfast"; Scorsese's, "Raging Bull", and of course 2011's AA Best Picture "The Artist" to name a few...keep watching...not all are Hollywood garbage.
Agreed...i wish she directed more films! And a special actress...she was made to play the femme fatale in noir flics, sexy and vulnerable, and sometimes ruthless.
A few years later, the killer would redeem him self, sort of, by becoming the district attorney that Perry Mason got to defeat every week. Now that I think about it, was it a step up or a step down?
The second verse of the Doors song "Riders On the Storm" is based on Billy Cook, the murderer who this film is based on. "There's a killer on the roam"....
Look this film up on IMDB, All of these main actors died between ages of 50 to 63 or 64. Some of lung cancer, some of heart attack, one died of Alzheimer's disease.
Great film. I hitchhiked the United States for most of 23 years. Only once did someone pull a knife on me. Met some great people on the road. _____ It's a Small World Hitchhiking on U.S. 20 in Nebraska. [25 February 2010] Yesterday I was walking east on U.S. 20 between Bassett and Stuart, Nebraska when this car pulled over to give me a ride. This guy’s name was Shawn and he was going to Atkinson on an errand. We got to talking and he just got back from a mission trip to Mexico. Shawn used to be a pastor at a few churches. He recently lived in the Star Valley area of western Wyoming. He now lived in Valentine, Nebraska with his wife Theresa. After Atkinson, we drove to Ainsworth to pick up his wife. We stayed at their friends’ place for supper and then drove west of Ainsworth to this farm to see a couple that they knew. We walked to the house and the man motioned for us to come inside. I looked at the man and he looked familiar. His name was Greg and his wife was Marla. We talked for a while and Shawn told Greg and Marla that he had picked me up on the road earlier that day. I think Shawn then asked Greg if he had ever picked up any hitchhikers. Greg said that he and his wife picked up this hitchhiker in Idaho four or five years ago and that the hitchhiker had written a book. They dropped the hitchhiker off in Missoula, Montana. Greg then said that the hitchhiker sent him a copy of his book. He searched for a short while and then produced the book [typescript]. It was my book! (High Plains Drifter) It was a photocopy that this lady in Lewiston, Idaho had sent to them. She picked me up hitchhiking in the fall of 2004 and told me to give me a floppy disk of my book and that she would make some photocopies and then send it to anyone I wanted. She owned a print shop in Lewiston. I told Greg that he probably picked me up on U.S. 12 somewhere between Kooskia and Lolo Pass, Idaho in the fall of 2004. We talked about it some more and I believe he picked me up at a gas station at Lowell or Syringa, Idaho. We stayed at Greg and Marla’s place for an hour or so and had some excellent fellowship. It’s a small world. [Published by Digihitch-July 26, 2011]
Oh dear, frank lovejoy? His adenoids set my teeth on edge. I cannot help it. He's okay when I can SEE him, not just hear that voice of his on the OTR mystery shows.
the killer in real life is Billy Cook, of Joplin, Mo., about 1952, while hitchhiking, he killed a family of 5, from Alton, Ill., who picked him up, He threw the bodies into a deserted mine, in Joplin, he then drove to New Mexico, killed a salesman from Seattle, went on to So. Calif., an Baja Calif. He kidnapped (2) prospectors, he was arrested, sentenced to the gas chamber at San Quentin, was executed, and body returned to Joplin, buried in unmarked grave, Peace cemetery, Joplin.
It’s so cool to see where they filmed.. they filmed this in CA, in the Alabama Hills. You can see Mt. Whitney in some of the frames. All those big neat rocks is Alabama Hills.
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On this upload, a truly dope noir classis one of my TCM. favorites.!!! Do this again if you have another one fam.
Like it? what,?really?
absolutely loved it,
You got 100k stripes for this one
'The Hitchhiker', the forever piece of noir time machine classic from beginning to end, The offensive line- up of Frank Lovejoy, Walter Talman, Edmon O'Brien all time masterpiece right here!!! You got gold bars for this one, do another end zone., what else can you pull out of the closet?
We all should know that Ida Lupino was a fantastic actress, but here she shows how great she was at directing, and writing. In just a little over an hour she builds the tension ,and suspense to a boiling point that grips you to the end, that some directors (today) can't do in 2,&1/2 hrs. The acting is fantastic, and the camera work is spot on. Thank you Timeless Classic for showing this gem. Bob. G
the old saying, "complacency kills" "Mexicali Blues" and be very wary about free rides
Yes,a tribute to her is in order. Perhaps a festival of just her work
Hollywood has needed more ida
Another great classic movie to watch. You may also like these other great movies such as: The Hitchiker, Queen Bee, Wicked Woman, Whatever happen to Baby Jane, Key Largo, The Diafent One's, A patch of Blue, The heat of the night, Borderline, The Grapes of the Wrath and Caged are some of my most favorites. 😊
Ida Lupino really an extraordinarily talented person and she came across as being down to earth.
Great cast, with Edmond O'Brien
always top notch. Thanks for posting this.
Where did they intend to go? Hiking in choco mountains or fishing?? Frank loveyoj says in beggining: “fishing was idea” … so why were the going toward mountains in becgining?
Yes, and William Talman nails it as the desperate psychopath...
Good picture. The doors wrote a song about it. 😢😢
Loved this movie. As a kid in the 80's I watched Hitcher and I knew I'd never hitchhike. You'd think this would've done the same for kids in the 50's and 60's but coming from my dad hitchhiking was pretty common in the 60's and 70's.
All the time in Philly outskirts for me in early 70s.
William Talman said after this movie came out he was in his convertible at a stop light and a guy asked him if he was The Hitchhiker. He said yes, and the guy punched him in the face! He took this as a great compliment!
First time for me watching Hamilton Berger outside the courtroom. Very well played by Mr. Talman!
William Talman was a way above average actor, hamilton burger was all his own.
What a great movie. So much of it was shot in the claustrophobic atmsophere of a single car. Kept waiting for one of the two heroes to get control of that rifle and they kept leaving me hanging. The idea of the psycho batshit villain with a ‘dead eye’ or whatever that never closed so the two heroes never knew when he was sleeping was genius. Had a lot of fun.
Check out Detour (1945).
@@taylorj6177 "Detour" remains one of my favorite noirs. A close second to "Criss Cross"..
Directed by Ida Lupino! A woman ahead of her time. A great talent in front and behind the camera.
We had women doing a lot of good/great things before 1953 because they also had the freedom to chase their dreams if they choose. But I never heard of this one. :)
WOW, that was so intense!
That was excellently executed and I can say, it was so true to human nature of how a person, rational people would act in a situation like this.
No cowards here.
So marvelously written, filmed, and directed.
Bravo!
Edmond O'Brien is an excellent actor. Met Edmond in a barber shop in West Los Angeles, CA. His favorite movies? DOA; The Hitch Hiker; Seven Days in May. It was a privilege to share with him [his] takes on film noir. He was the greatest of film noir actors.
He's got to be one of my all-time favorite male performers of that era: he wasn't conventionally leading-man handsome, but he had such solid presence on film. A wonderful, natural actor.
@@cynthialyman2636 I agree with you about him not being conventionally leading-man handsome but he sure did have great magnetism. Have you seen Another Part of the Forest? He has sideburns in that role and it makes him more handsome/sexier.
@@jeffeastwood15 l have, and l think it showcases Edmond in his prime. He was downright delectable in that period piece: All man, a nice voice for delivery, and overall a very versatile actor.
I agree. We need more strong male actors like him. I barely recognized him in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He was so different from the other types of characters I was use to seeing him play. Yet, his performance was pure perfection.
@@kurtb8474 A gifted actor, for sure. His break out performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton was also memorable. O Brien was the consummate pro. The more l watch him, the more l am amazed.
2 👍👍 in honor of Siskel and Ebert. Ida Lupino was a great all around film, tv and radio talent: actor, writer, director, producer...she did it all at a high level. The Hitch-Hiker and Outrage are both designated films in the National Film Registry, a great honor and testament to her talented contributions. My personal favs were her acting gigs in High Sierra and The Bigamist. She was gorgeous, and fit the femme fatale noir roles perfectly.
I like how the prelude to the movie says, 'after 70 mins' and accurately so. The film is gripping and time flies. The movies of today could take a lesson or two.
No special effects, no nudity, and no foul language....just a great story, terrific directing and exceptional actors.
not whats wrong with nudity have a mental problem
Exactly
Fuck off with this stupid shit
You sound like my mom . She hates movies with nudity and cussing
Agree
Love these old classic movies, and have to say I saw a couple of times they could have made a break for it
A great ride... no pun intended. I fell in love with Ida in 1960... I was 13 and she was so much woman. Thanks for sharing this classic. It is no wonder that her work still stands the test.
Thank you for posting these movies. I love these old classics. They were made when films were still an "art" form. The actors were great, the scripts were great, the stories were great and original, the cinematography was great and the directors were great. Movies today have weak scripts, regurgitated stories, mediocre actors and acting and it seems like one person writes all the stories. I am sick and tired of movies that inject the same old Hollywood agenda and propaganda that most the time have nothing to do with the story being told. As with all things today, when so much money is involved, the once "art" form has become a "science", meaning always the same formula. OK, great CGI, but so what!. These old classic movies did so much more with less than one tenth the budget and no CGI. How sad and disappointing, except now I spend more time watching classics that new movies.
Mean Mr. Mustard I have not been to the movies in 20 yrs. Nothing worthwhile watching. I love these old movies. They had more character to them. No nudity, swearing, whatever else they can come up with. This is not a great movie but I enjoyed it. I have watched about 6 of them and they are very entertaining.
Film is still an art form, you all speak like Hollywood blockbusters are the only movies that are released. Whilst this is a great pictures, there are a lot of films that are undeniable pieces of art released every year.
Mean Mr. Mustard....excellent name.....!!!!! This film was quite scary, especially for it's time....
An excellent film and I would say also , much underrated and superb performances by all. Well worth viewing and perhaps even more than once ......
This movie literally kept me on the edge of my seat! Great film. Thanks.
I read that this movie helped inspire Jim Morrison while writing the lyrics to Riders On The Storm. This is A GREAT FILM. Well done!!!
Interesting...the lyrics do seem to reflect this general plot ...Morrison was well read, and I believe a tortured genius. "This is the end ...my only friend" 😳
Ida Lupino was a national treasure. All of her directoral efforts were outstanding; often with small budgets and second-tier casts like Lovejoy and O'Brien. Both of whom were always excellent.
Rutger Hauer did an incredible job as a Billy Cook type killer in The Hitcher. That movie made my blood run cold!
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Used to love driving those old "three on the tree" cars and trucks-- after the tractor those were my first driving experiences. LOVE these old movies-- thanks for posting for all to enjoy. : )
My first car was 3 on the tree lol. I'm too old to want to drive that now, but when I was young I had about 3 different ones ...
A woman who can drive a tractor is #1 in my books! My father had an old Dodge that was great, but his favorite older car was a 1955 Desoto with a Hemi engine. The last of the 6 volt systems, it had a lot of power, a lot of comfortable seating ( no seat belts ) and it just floated down the road.
The sound on this is amazing. I'm listening on headphones, while watching on phone. Sounds like I am sitting in a movie theater.
Leith Stevens was a great musical director not well remembered these days. But if you listen to Vintage Radio Shows, you will hear them credit him for the music in many of the popular radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio.
@Timothy McCaskey Ida Lupino was from an acting family that went back to the 14th Century in Italy.
@Robert Gardea You act like you are still in them. 🤔
I concur! I'm very hard of hearing, I could hear everything great! Good movie!
I caught on to the realism and influence of the sound design in the last 15 minutes erso...quite well done!
I have literally NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY AND SATISFIED WATCHING A MOVIE EVER
Awesome flick. Prior to watching it all I knew of William Talman was the character of prosecutor Hamilton Burger in the Perry Mason series. In this movie he does a great job of portraying a menacing maniac.
I really enjoyed this film. writer and Director Ida Lupino did an amazing job with this film
I believe there were movies that she directed before this but she was one of the very first women directors.... also fun for me because they talked about San Felipe which is where I live
I was looking through films noir, and choosing can be tough because some are very good while some turn out to be not at all good. When I saw this was a Lupino I knew quality wasn't going to be an issue. She's always good.
Great Noir - one of my favorites. ... Finely directed psychological thriller, with well-timed & directed psychological brickmanship among ALL characters - the hostages, the hostage taker, and even the authorities manipulating news radio dispatches! ... NIFTY PREMISE - WHO IS HOLDING WHOM AS HOSTAGE?, INCLUDING THE HOSTAGE-FRIENDS WITH EACH ANOTHER!! - BRAVO!
Although interesting, we should realize that hollywood has always come from a different premise than true American philosophy. The destruction of moral American values has become vast, with a lot having to do with hollywood and our education system today. The way Film Noir does it, is by taking the perspective of the dark criminal, and putting him/her in a light of consideration.
I read that Ida really knew how to handle a male crew. Instead of giving them orders, she would say to them, dears, mother has a problem here, how would you work it out? She would then allow them to make suggestions and to contribute.
Kill em with kindness, barely cloaked condescension. Sounds smart to me.
A sign of a great leader, to empower others
In Tennessee, we call that acting "Southern belle simple."
The the guys can mansplain stuff to you, (that you already know.)
My father and my auntie used to hitchhike everywhere back in the 50s. It was safer back then. Do I recommend it today? NO WAY. This was great noir. Loved it!!
this is one of the greatest movies ever made , it's amazing that it has remained in " public domain " all these years, directed by one of the most beautiful and smartest woman to ever set foot in hollywood Ida Lupino , it's true , they just don't make em like they used to .
Your absolutely right Jeff D too many people have never even heard of Ida she was one of the greats ..... Actress and later producer and director and also writer✌️
it had such a esoteric perspective
@@rickdaniels3471 Ida Lupino was also an inventor. One of her most famous inventions was spread spectrum communications, whereby secret transmissions skip all over the band so that they can't be intercepted.
@@honestdave4362 Youre thinking of Hedy Lamarr...Ida was very accomplished as well but it was Hedy that invented what we now call "bluetooth"
She also was in a great Twilight Zone episode.
I bought this on DVD in a truck stop, it's a really good movie!
The hitch hiker with one eye opened at all times, that can be creepy! 😆
the first film noir I ever saw back in the early 90s with my grandfather. Thanks for posting it.
My reason for watching this is twofold. I am a fan of old radio drama. Lovejoy was Randy Stone in Night Beat and O'Brien was on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. And William Talman adds a perfect cherry on top of the sundae.
big compliment to the uploader. T.Q.very much for
all these beautiful acted old classic films.
Great film! I'm really enjoying films made in the early 50's; an unfortunately overlooked section of the decade.
Wonderful movie.The phycho villian acted brilliantly. And the two actors acted brilliantly too, their expression for the fear of the gun. Trying to escape but the phycho's eyes always following them. Overall brilliant film.
Ty TCM. Superb acting by all. Ida Lupino has always been one of my favorite actresses. She did very well Directing this movie.
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Thought to watch this before bed ... not a good idea. You get so engrossed that you must watch to the end. Edge of your seat intense flick right from the start with the psychological tormenting and taunting of his victims. Wow. Highly recommend watching.
Nice cast, with a real robotic meany ("keys"..."get down"...) with weak moments too, and two convincingly bewildered victims. Very efficient music too, accentuating the drama. Great job by Lupino, prooving already in the early 1950's with brio that women too could achieve great results as a producer. Nothing surprising today, but in those days... The movie surely earns its status !
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You'd think his hand would cramp holding that gun on them hours at a time. Guess he's just too tough! 😄
And ALWAYS cuff the hands behind a guy, not in front. Wonder if police really always cuffed the hands in front back then? 🤔
Thanks for posting an excellent movie!
Fantastic, outstanding film noir with the man you love to hate Hamilton Burger and the Hitchhiker in this movie. A superb performance by William Talman. He got his "Oscar" on some road of Los Angeles by a driver who saw him while they both stopped and he got out and punched William still feeling what most audiences felt toward the Hitchhiker!!!(He didn't receive the Oscar though he should have.)
I love this movie, and William Talman is an absolute gem in it.
Agree, fantastic actor. Loved him on Perry Mason. Only DA for me. Show lacked something without him
@@m.e.d.7997 You can't have Mason without Burger and you can't have Burger without Mason.
This movie was inspired by true events. One can also read- The Mosser Massacre, by Glenn Shirley. It also is why hitchhiking is illegal many places.This case was the largest west of the Mississippi man hunt at the time.
In the seventies you still saw hitchhikers after that not so much. It dwindled. Now Never.
@Fallin Leaves When you stick out your thumb and get picked up for free by whoever sees you that's hitchhiking. For a couple of years in the 70s that's how I commuted to work every morning. Uber is nothing like that. Who ever heard of needing an account to hitchhike?
I remember watching movies as kid in the 70s about people...mostly women getting killed when hitchhiking.
@@dontaylor7315 ikr? I hitchhiked in the 70s too. Eek. A young female hitchhiking alone ...
@@melodiefrances3898 and I bet you weren't afraid, right? Weird how it's changed.
All those days and nights together and not one of them has a wash or cleans their teeth or does a #1 or a #2. Quite extraordinary.
"You know there's always trouble when you leave your own back yard". Good film, thanx.
Cool film. Directed by Ida Lupino - among her other accomplishments, the only person to ever both star in and direct episodes of "Twilight Zone."
I'm glad you mentioned that. I love the one where she is obsessed with film images of herself as a younger star and ends up disappearing into the celluloid memories. Such a multi-talented woman.
"The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine," a great TZ, and the one she directed "The Masks," another great one.
Thanks for clarifying the title(s).
No problem.
The Hitch-Hiker is regarded as the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.The film noir genre generally refers to mystery and crime drama films produced from the early 1940s to the late 1950s
Shows what you can do with a no budget, a good director, good actors and creativity. Keep you on your toes for the whole thing. Only thing is, how did they ever get back to the states?
Thank you for the great movies they're are irreplaceable.
back when people could rome freely back and forth across our southern boarder.
thanks for the movie...good one!
Thank you! Though a film buff from way back I 'd never seen a movie by Ida Lupino. The cast is on the level and the hamster really looks the part.
I kept watching for the hamster throughout the entire movie. (?) 🤔
Dammit! I was looking forward to seeing how a hamster 🐹 saved the day... maybe crawl up the bad guys pants to snack on the berries? But lamster? now I have to look for a lamb instead? 🐑 Sheeesh 🙄
Great classic movie starring Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy
Thanks for the upload Timeless classic movies,
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William Talman is a revelation! Looks like Lone Pine to me. O'Brien did a great comic turn in "The Girl Can't Help It."
Really an excellent film. The plot and setting are unusual, being set in the country not a city. No female leads, but it works well. Love Frank Lovejoy and Edmond O’Brien in this, but the real surprise is Talman. He does the psycho killer thing better than I expected from Ham Burger. ;)
Another great noir under Ida Lupino’s direction. Thanks for the upload, really enjoyable! :)
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Plot, setting and lack of female lead was brought to you by real life. The writers can’t take credit or blame.
Based on real life murderer William Edward Cook Jr. (In case you're wondering)
Ah tyvm, I was wondering.
Here is Billy Cook's article on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal)
We know, it's in the description.
He sure was scary looking.
Ida Lupino is not only a great actress by a over-the-top director!
I watched this some time ago and loved it! Unusual story but the suspense kept me on edge.
It was an unusual story. I thought it was kind of BS at some points, especially when they didm't jump him in the bar toward the end? But there was some decent acting. For a better but similar film, I'd suggest the 1945 *Detour*
Anyone who passes by a film that says "Directed by Ida Lupino" isn't a true film enthusiast.
In the beginning the two men should have looked for a way to jump him before they got too far. One could have grabbed his hand from behind while the other quickly came to help him. Overall a very good film. Highly suspencefull.
Where did they intend to go? Hiking in choco mountains or fishing?? Frank loveyoj says in beggining: “fishing was idea” … so why were the going toward mountains in becgining?
A good chance was when he was holding the rifle to shoot the can out of his friend's hand. Keep pretending to focus, 'stressed' then quickly swing the rifle around into Myers's head
Great movie lots of action kept you thinking all the way through the movie thank you so much for the hidden time capsule 👍🇺🇸
Hamilton Burger... Never thought I'd see him outside of a courtroom 😂😂😂
Another excellent 'OLDIE but GOODIE' from Timeless Classics. Thank you very much for posting all these Awesome Vintage Flicks.
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Wow! Mr Burger from Perry Mason as a psycho? I guess he lost one too many cases? LOLOL
Too many? He lost them all save for one I think lol! He would not have lasted long in real life.
All prosecutors and
DAs are criminally insane.
They sleep well at night
regardless of whether the
right man's in jail.
Lolololo!!!
This actor died of lung cancer in 1968. Several months before he died, he did a TV public service announcement to discourage anyone from smoking. The commercial ran even after he died. It was kind of eerie.
Robbi496 ..... I knew that was him.....thanks....
Loved this film, so intense all the way through.
So kids, don't hitchhike.
Or pick them up.
Excellent film, well played and directed. A masterpiece. Thank you for posting.
The Hitch-Hiker is regarded as the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant
I know you wrote your comment 10 months ago but I wanted to reply. As soon as I saw that Ida Lupino who's in this movie I wanted to watch it. I did know this was her first time directing a film. I know she directed at least one of the movie and was surprised when I read that. Thanks for the info.
While not a director of noir films, Dorothy Arzner directed over a dozen movies starting in 1927.
Wow, that was really amazing to watch. You were kept on your toes the entire film. So well done and the quality and sound were fantastic. You will not regret watching this at all. You will regret though if you did not watch it.
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I noticed that Ida Lupino had co wrote the screenplay and directed the movie too. Great old classic film noir. Good direction from that lovely actress Ida. She directed episodes of The Twilight Zone and Gilligan's Island too.
WideTubeVision4 great director Ida Lupino.......... good movie too, she also appeared n directed a few episodes of Boris Karloff's tv series "thriller".
WideTubeVision4 great director Ida Lupino.......... good movie too, she also appeared n directed a few episodes of Boris Karloff's tv series "thriller".
WideTubeVision4 great director Ida Lupino.......... good movie too, she also appeared n directed a few episodes of Boris Karloff's tv series "thriller".
Im a subscriber😎💜thx so much...love classic movies never saw ths 1 b4! Great
I was able to read the whole intro with time to spare!
I sure wish they still did that. I read pretty quickly, but I find myself pausing or missing the end that is flashed across the screen.
I seem to notice little odd things like that and wonder why has “it” been sped up so fast?
Who can read that fast?!!
Good movie . Today they need to take lessons from the past on how to do it right like they use to .
My dad had to walk to school and back home..uphill both ways.
Fishing is overrated, anyway. I prefer getting laid.
Good movie! One thing not believable though---his gun wouldn't stay upright if he ever actually fell asleep. Would be a dead giveaway (no pun intended).
The actor who plays the psycho does a good job. What a big man with a gun. Like all psychos, stupid, a coward, and nutty as a fruitcake. You're essentially dealing with a mad dog.
I'm not so sure about that. I've had co-workers who could sit upright, or even stand, and doze for 15 - 20 minutes at a time and it would be hard to tell unless you looked at them very closely.. The psycho in this movie was so high-strung he was probably a very light sleeper as well.
After seeing this movie, I aint picking up no hitch-hiker. If I see a hitch-hiker, i'll tell them to download the Uber app.
Acting and dialogue are just perfect. Real Alpha males back then… ‘it’s all right, it’s all right’”. 👏🏻
Love the intro... "a man, and a gun, and a car". Great!
Thanks for sharing it! I always enjoy watching Great Old Story Movies though. 👍👌👏
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I owed a 53 Chrysler .. they looked very much the same as the Plymouth .. flat head six cylinder .. it was like driving your couch down the road .. Smooth .. did you see how easy it was to enter Mexico .. no wall back then
get over it.
Your kids obviously didn't have to worry about competition for unskilled labor work and YOU probably benefited from super-cheap labor as a result. Well done.
@@dantean YOu benefit from it too, dipshit. You want to make a change? No one is stopping you..
What talent this was a great drama with a fantastic ensemble.cast.
And did you know did you know I know Ida Lupino directed this movie?
A great little Gem....Lupino was a fantastic woman.
hey made short work on him in 1951 they sentenced him. 1952 they executed him. Not like today. man can sit for 20 years and be guilty
Saw the whole film on my phone. Kept watching, keeping tab of the parts where the guys could have either run off or tackled the guy. At the bar where the hitch hiker sets down the rifle was the perfect opportunity...They could have also made a run for it while stopping for food at the first Mexican town.
Wow! What a suspenseful film; I have just about given up on so called modern movies. No distractions with color, fancy special effects, just a good plot, good actors and no need for gratuitous sex scenes.
I, am 18 years old What a simple Decent And Deciding movie Thanks to everybody who Watched. What
I am only 40, but have grown up on BW movies and of course watched the best movies till mid 90's, coz after that I hardly found anything worthwhile...the thrill and suspense of BW movies, Awesome !!!!! What a character this Myers, gawd, I watched the whole movie without breathing properly.....
It takes a little effort to find worthwhile modern movies to watch, especially if b&w. Some are out there...Im thinking about Johnny Depp in "Dead Man"; Lynch's, "The Elephant Man" and "Eraserhead"; Spielberg's, "Schindler's List"; Frank Miller's, "Sin City"; the Cohen Bros, "The Man Who Wasn't There"; Clooney's, "Good Night and Good Luck"; most recently Branaughs, "Belfast"; Scorsese's, "Raging Bull", and of course 2011's AA Best Picture "The Artist" to name a few...keep watching...not all are Hollywood garbage.
Ida was an AMAZING director! I hope that she received some sort of recognition for this great little film. very tight editing!
This film was mediocre. It's not great.
@ Can I see your film for comparison?
@ Too bad, you didn't grasp what I was pertaining to.
Agreed...i wish she directed more films! And a special actress...she was made to play the femme fatale in noir flics, sexy and vulnerable, and sometimes ruthless.
This movie and the Outrage were inducted into the National Film Registry, a very prestigious honor.
12:31 "This car rides pretty good." It should; it's only a year old 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook. I had one from '68-'88. Still rode well.
great movie - thank you for the high quality upload!
LOL the Reporter on the radio said the guy is 28 years old? He looks more like 48
He was actually around 38 the actor
Love these older movies. I subscribed. Looking forward to watching episodes already uploaded, and waiting on new uploads!
A few years later, the killer would redeem him self, sort of, by becoming the district attorney that Perry Mason got to defeat every week. Now that I think about it, was it a step up or a step down?
That's what you get when you study law in the prison library.
The second verse of the Doors song "Riders On the Storm" is based on Billy Cook, the murderer who this film is based on. "There's a killer on the roam"....
His brain is squirming like a toad.
Look this film up on IMDB, All of these main actors died between ages of 50 to 63 or 64. Some of lung cancer, some of heart attack, one died of Alzheimer's disease.
Great film. I hitchhiked the United States for most of 23 years. Only once did someone pull a knife on me. Met some great people on the road.
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It's a Small World
Hitchhiking on U.S. 20 in Nebraska.
[25 February 2010]
Yesterday I was walking east on U.S. 20 between Bassett and Stuart, Nebraska when this car pulled over to give me a ride. This guy’s name was Shawn and he was going to Atkinson on an errand. We got to talking and he just got back from a mission trip to Mexico. Shawn used to be a pastor at a few churches. He recently lived in the Star Valley area of western Wyoming. He now lived in Valentine, Nebraska with his wife Theresa.
After Atkinson, we drove to Ainsworth to pick up his wife. We stayed at their friends’ place for supper and then drove west of Ainsworth to this farm to see a couple that they knew. We walked to the house and the man motioned for us to come inside. I looked at the man and he looked familiar. His name was Greg and his wife was Marla.
We talked for a while and Shawn told Greg and Marla that he had picked me up on the road earlier that day. I think Shawn then asked Greg if he had ever picked up any hitchhikers. Greg said that he and his wife picked up this hitchhiker in Idaho four or five years ago and that the hitchhiker had written a book. They dropped the hitchhiker off in Missoula, Montana.
Greg then said that the hitchhiker sent him a copy of his book. He searched for a short while and then produced the book [typescript]. It was my book! (High Plains Drifter)
It was a photocopy that this lady in Lewiston, Idaho had sent to them. She picked me up hitchhiking in the fall of 2004 and told me to give me a floppy disk of my book and that she would make some photocopies and then send it to anyone I wanted. She owned a print shop in Lewiston.
I told Greg that he probably picked me up on U.S. 12 somewhere between Kooskia and Lolo Pass, Idaho in the fall of 2004. We talked about it some more and I believe he picked me up at a gas station at Lowell or Syringa, Idaho.
We stayed at Greg and Marla’s place for an hour or so and had some excellent fellowship.
It’s a small world.
[Published by Digihitch-July 26, 2011]
Quite simply this, Ida Lupino was absolutely gorgeous.
Lovejoy was also a great radio voice in his own series.
Oh dear, frank lovejoy? His adenoids set my teeth on edge. I cannot help it. He's okay when I can SEE him, not just hear that voice of his on the OTR mystery shows.
the killer in real life is Billy Cook, of Joplin, Mo., about 1952, while hitchhiking, he killed a family of 5, from Alton, Ill., who picked him up, He threw the bodies into a deserted mine, in Joplin, he then drove to New Mexico, killed a salesman from Seattle, went on to So. Calif., an Baja Calif. He kidnapped (2) prospectors, he was arrested, sentenced to the gas chamber at San Quentin, was executed, and body returned to Joplin, buried in unmarked grave, Peace cemetery, Joplin.
As soon as I hit a road block, I would jump out..and take my chances....
Simply GREAT!!! Thx so much 4 posting!!
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It’s so cool to see where they filmed.. they filmed this in CA, in the Alabama Hills. You can see Mt. Whitney in some of the frames. All those big neat rocks is Alabama Hills.
One of my favorite Ida Lupino films.
Just came because of my favourite movie ever. The Hitcher.