Bruce Townley (btownley@sirius.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:52:08 -0800 (PST)
On: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 at 17:33 steve kesten sent: Country
noir
>One truly grisly, hardboiled two hours of film is THE
HITCHER made in
>the late Eighties. Terse, imaginitive, scary as hell.
May be more
>terror than hardboiled, but soft it isn't.
A film that is a clear progenitor of THE HITCHER is Ida
Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER (1953). This spare, taught thriller
features William Talman as the titular psycho wanderer. Most
of the story is set in remote, sun-blasted stretches of
desert. Even though its a mere 71 minutes long the film
really delivers.
Bruce T. = btownley@sirius.com
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