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The Hitch-Hiker

Who'll be his next victim... YOU?

1953 · NR · 1h 11m

Directed by Ida Lupino

6.8

TMDB audience score
215 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.

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Cast

  • Edmond O'Brien
    Roy Collins

  • Frank Lovejoy
    Gilbert Bowen

  • William Talman
    Emmett Myers

  • José Torvay
    Captain Alvarado

  • Sam Hayes
    Radio Broadcaster

  • Wendell Niles
    Wendell Niles

  • Jean Del Val
    Inspector General

  • Clark Howat
    Government Agent

  • Natividad Vacío
    Jose

  • Larry Hudson
    FBI Agent

  • Collier Young
    Sleeping Mexican Peon

  • Gordon Barnes
    Hendrickson

  • Rodney Bell
    William Johnson

  • Orlando Beltran
    Salesman

  • Wade Crosby
    Joe

  • June Dinneen
    Waitress

  • Joe Dominguez
    Bit Part

  • Henry A. Escalante
    Mexican Guard