Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker is an entertaining but not always convincing Mexico-set thriller, buoyed by some memorable images and William Talman's wonderful face, but hamstrung (at least somewhat) by gaps in logic and its low budget.
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"The only true film noir ever directed by a woman, this tour-de-force thriller (considered by many, including Lupino herself, to be her best film) is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by psychopathic serial killer Emmett Myers (William Talman)." Kino Lorber films
