The Hitch-Hiker

Lots to think about here re: the symbolic power of the gun, how it completely dominates the film and the two men at its center, the terror it commands and the emasculation it perpetrates. Lupino seems interested in the fragility of masculine performance in the face of an…

esther

The way of the gun as the only manliness measurement stick. So tight, so forceful.

Filipe Furtado

Faces suspended in a void have nothing but their own grim performances to convey. The desert setting does not serve to create the touted claustrophobia; it's the shadows, the darkness that encompasses them in open spaces, around campfires, under the stars. Light only shows…

Sally Jane Black

"It's just a game" A brilliant dark thriller. Lupino directs while also delivering a highly engaging simple story with a tightly confined structure. The film’s own vulnerability and uncertainty hit hard—it is delicate, intimate, even helpless. This is a threat that lurks…

wersku

A marvel of economy, Ida Lupino's cut to the bone roadway thriller remains a tense and to the point white knuckle ride all these years later."When was the last time you invited death into your car?" (tagline from the U.S. Poster)It kicks off with one of the more harrowing…

Mandrakegray

The way Bowen held Roy.... whew that’s gay love baby! This is like brokeback mountain as a nightmare instead of a tragedy

Chris 🍉

Action! - Female 4 Front: Breaking Grounds With Ida Lupino With this film, which in many ways represents Ida Lupino's zenith, the director proves that she is at her best when she is not relying on melodrama but instead crafting works that are fraught with great…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Based on a true story, The Hitch-Hiker comes by its all-male core honestly, but that doesn't make its exploration of masculinity any less interesting. In the absence of the woman who would traditionally be the most vulnerable victim in a situation like the one portrayed in…

sakana1

this is literally the plot of brokeback mountain if they picked up a hitchhiker on the way to the mountain

theo