Tue, Mar 5 / 7 pm
Tue, Mar 12 / 9 pm
Tue, Mar 19 / 7 pm
Tue, Mar 26 / 8:30 pm
Directed by Ida Lupino
1953, USA, 71 min
Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), The Hitch-Hiker is perhaps better remembered as one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, the film tells the tension-laden saga of two men who are held captive by a homicidal drifter and forced at gunpoint to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert. Representing renegade filmmaking at its finest,the film was independently produced, which allowed Lupino to work from a treatment by blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that was too brutal for the major studios to even consider.
Restoration Tuesdays: our new ongoing series of newly restored films, is generously sponsored by IATSE 856. All admissions to these screenings is $5.
