After the trio stops to disconnect their stuck car horn, further down the road they experience a tire blow-out.
As the car comes to a stop, the car horn can be briefly heard.
When the men remove the tire from the car, it is fully inflated as the profile of the tread appears to be convex.
The tread of a flat tire would appear straight across or concave.
Two fishing buddies unwittingly give a lift to a serial killer who forces them to drive across the border at gunpoint in this compact thriller directed by Ida Lupino. A former film noir star, Lupino brings several interesting directing touches to the film such as the initial obscuring of the hitchhiker's face until he produces his gun, but it is William Talman's unhinged performance as the hitcher that really makes the film.
"The Hitch Hiker" (1953)"The Hitch Hiker" (1953), directed by one of the rare female directors, Idea Lupino. The film stars Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, and William Talman.
William Talman ("Myers") is great in this thriller that follows the tortuous journey of two fishermen who stopped to pick up a traveller and discover they are now in the hands of a gun-toting psychopath. Determined to escape the pursuing authorities, he forces them to drive, then walk, through largely desert terrain heading for a port and his escape.
Former Hollywood glamour girl turned fiercely independent Hollywood rabble-rouser was one of the pitifully few female director/producers of the period. Way back in the stiflingly patriarchal 1950s, the literally trail-blazing, and not just a little bit ravishing, Ida Lupino, made her rightfully celebrated, low-budget, high-voltage, Nightmare-Noir road movie which has certainly lost none of its claustrophobic, teeth-grinding intensity, and still stands resolutely as a glowing testament to burgeoning independent filmmaker, Lupino's remarkable talent as director, coaxing first rate, dynamite performances from her tough trio of appealing actors.
This movie fits in my personal category of a near perfect movie. There is murder, there is a little mystery, there is suspense.
'The Hitch-Hiker (1953)' focuses on a pair of recreational fishermen who are kidnapped by a notorious hitch-hiking killer they pick up on the side of the road. The psychopath is on the run from the law and - at gunpoint - forces the men to drive him to safety.
A really good, dramatic, suspenseful crime-thriller. In a way, this film is comparable to the 1963 film The Sadist with a sadistic madman with a gun holding others hostage until he is finished dealing with them.
Two carefree young travelers make the mistake of their lives when they pick up a mysterious, and slightly psychotic, hitch-hiker who never closes his right eye -- even when he sleeps!Film Noir...
This movie has one main theme trust. The first break of trust began with the two husbands lying to their wives about where they were going.
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