The Hitchhiker

1953 | B/N | 71

Two young, carefree travellers make the mistake of their lives when they pick up a mysterious and somewhatpsychotic hitch-hiker who never closes his right eye —not even when he sleeps!

Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Lupino; Ida
Script: Mainwaring; Daniel, Lupino; Ida, Young; Collier
Production: Young; Collier
Sound: Meadows; Roy, Portman; Clem
Music: Bakaleinikoff; C., Stevens; Leith
Cast:O'Brien; Edmond, Lovejoy; Frank, Talman; William, Hayes; Sam, Niles; Wendell, Del Val; Jean, Howat; Clark, Vacío; Natividad, Torvay; José
Art direction: D'Agostino; Albert S., Keller; Walter E.
Participation year at FICM: 2014

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