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If you liked this video, please subscribe and donate $1.00 to the channel at $channel3youtube on Cash App. Thank you for your viewership and support. The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 American film noir written and directed by Ida Lupino, about two friends taking a fishing trip who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico.[2] Inspired by the crime spree of the psychopathic murderer Billy Cook (1928–1952), the screenplay was written by Lupino and her former husband Collier Young, based on a story by Daniel Mainwaring which was adapted by Robert L. Joseph. Mainwaring did not receive a screen credit due to his then being on the Hollywood blacklist.
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.
Directed by Ida Lupino
Produced by Collier Young
Screenplay by
Ida Lupino
Collier Young
Starring
Edmond O'Brien
Frank Lovejoy
William Talman
Music by Leith Stevens
Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by Douglas Stewart
Production
companies
The Filmakers Inc.
RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
March 20, 1953 (Premiere: Boston)[1]
March 21, 1953 (US)[1]
Running time 71 minutes
Country United States
Language English
A CHANNEL 3 YOUTUBE PRESENTATION
If you liked this video, please subscribe and donate $1.00 to the channel at $channel3youtube on Cash App. Thank you for your viewership and support. The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 American film noir written and directed by Ida Lupino, about two friends taking a fishing trip who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico.[2] Inspired by the crime spree of the psychopathic murderer Billy Cook (1928–1952), the screenplay was written by Lupino and her former husband Collier Young, based on a story by Daniel Mainwaring which was adapted by Robert L. Joseph. Mainwaring did not receive a screen credit due to his then being on the Hollywood blacklist.
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.
Directed by Ida Lupino
Produced by Collier Young
Screenplay by
Ida Lupino
Collier Young
Starring
Edmond O'Brien
Frank Lovejoy
William Talman
Music by Leith Stevens
Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by Douglas Stewart
Production
companies
The Filmakers Inc.
RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
March 20, 1953 (Premiere: Boston)[1]
March 21, 1953 (US)[1]
Running time 71 minutes
Country United States
Language English
A CHANNEL 3 YOUTUBE PRESENTATION
