Debut of a new film series: IDA LUPINO 101

The Hitch-Hiker
(Ida Lupino, 1953, 71 min, USA, English & Spanish, B&W, 35mm)

-- Introduced by Michael Morton (Research Professor Emeritus, AMI/Germanic Languages & Literature)

Businessmen Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy see their vacation go to hell when they pick up the wrong guy: psychopath William Talman. This film was Ida’s personal favorite; exquisitely tense from the very first frame. -- 35mm archival print courtesy of Library of Congress.

“Taut, tough, and entirely without macho-glorification, it's a gem, with first-class performances from its three protagonists, deftly characterised without resort to cliché.” Geoff Andrew, Time Out

“This hell-for-leather 1953 noir demonstrates Ida Lupino's facility with actors and flawless pacing.” J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

Sponsored by the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

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Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.

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