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* {{Sadist}}: Meyers frequently abuses and pyshcologcally tortures Bowen and Collins, [[ForTheEvulz more or less for shits and giggles.]]
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* {{Sadist}}: Meyers frequently abuses and pyshcologcally psychologically tortures Bowen and Collins, [[ForTheEvulz more or less for shits and giggles.]]
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: [[spoiler: {{Inverted}}. The police give false information to the news to make it seem like they don't think Meyers is with Bowen and Collins. Just as Meyers is about to kill them, he hears this false information on the radio, which makes him decide that they can still be useful to him after all.]]
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: [[spoiler: {{Inverted}}. The police give false information to the news to make it seem like they don't think Meyers is with Bowen and Collins. Just as Meyers is about to kill them, he hears this false information on over the radio, which makes him decide that they can still be useful to him after all.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: What Meyers plans to do to Collins and Bowen.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: What Meyers plans to do to Collins and Bowen.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: What Meyers plans to do to Collins and Bowen.
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* {{Sadist}}: Meyers frequently abuses and pyshcologcally tortures Bowen and Collins,[[ForTheEvulz Collins, [[ForTheEvulz more or less for shits and giggles.]]
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: [[spoiler: [[Inverted]]. The police give false information to the news to make it seem like they don't think Meyers is with Bowen and Collins. Just as Meyers is about to kill them, he hears this false information on the radio, which makes him decide that they can still be useful to him after all.]]
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: [[spoiler: [[Inverted]].{{Inverted}}. The police give false information to the news to make it seem like they don't think Meyers is with Bowen and Collins. Just as Meyers is about to kill them, he hears this false information on the radio, which makes him decide that they can still be useful to him after all.]]
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* {{Sadist}}: Meyers frequently abuses and pyshcologcally tortures Bowen and Collins,[[ForTheEvulz more or less forshits and giggles.]]
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* {{Sadist}}: Meyers frequently abuses and pyshcologcally tortures Bowen and Collins,[[ForTheEvulz Collins,[[ForTheEvulz more or less forshits for shits and giggles.]]
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: [[spoiler: [[Inverted]]. The police give false information to the news to make it seem like they don't think Meyers is with Bowen and Collins. Just as Meyers is about to kill them, he hears this false information on the radio, which makes him decide that they can still be useful to him after all.]]
** [[spoiler: Meyers gets two in the climax, first when Bowen knocks his gun into the water, and the second is when the police put him in handcuffs.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Meyers frequently abuses and pyshcologcally tortures Bowen and Collins,[[ForTheEvulz more or less forshits and giggles.]]
* SpitefulSpit: Meyers spits at Collins after he's been beaten.
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* WantedPoster: How Meyers meets his doom. The local that he paid to arrange a boat across the Gulf of California to Guaymas sees his wanted poster in a store.
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* WantedPoster: [[spoiler: How Meyers meets his doom. The local that he paid to arrange a boat across the Gulf of California to Guaymas sees his wanted poster in a store.]]
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Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
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Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) Talman) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Only just averted: The car goes over a bump and Meyers’ gun goes off. The only reason he didn’t accidently kill Bowen was because it was an empty round.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Only just averted: The car goes over a bump and Meyers’ gun goes off. The only reason he didn’t accidently accidentally kill Bowen was because it was an empty round.
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* WantedPoster: How Meyers meets his doom. The local that he paid to arrange a boat across the Gulf of California to Guyamas sees his wanted poster in a store.
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* WantedPoster: How Meyers meets his doom. The local that he paid to arrange a boat across the Gulf of California to Guyamas Guaymas sees his wanted poster in a store.
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* OhCrap: When Collins and Bowen have escaped, but [[spoiler: Meyers wakes up and catches up to them in the car]].
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* OhCrap: When Collins and Bowen have escaped, but [[spoiler: Meyers wakes up and catches up to them in the car]].car.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Collins and Bowen strolling away down the pier, after Meyers has been arrested.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Collins and Bowen strolling away down the pier, after Meyers has been arrested.
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* {{Chiaroscuro}}BasedOnATrueStory: "This is the true story of a man and a gun and a car." Somewhat fictionalized but in some respects surprisingly accurate--Cook really did kidnap two guys on a hunting trip, he really did have a droopy eyelid, and he really was arrested in Santa Rosalia.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Dramatic use of lighting when Meyers first gets in the car: he's in pitch black darkness in the back seat until he pulls the gun and leans forward into the light, which is the first time we see his face. Later, the climactic fight is shot on a shadowy, dimly-lit pier at night.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Dramatic use of lighting when Meyers first gets in the car: he's in pitch black darkness in the back seat until he pulls the gun and leans forward into the light, which is the first time we see his face. Later, the climactic fight is shot on a shadowy, dimly-lit pier at night.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: "This is the true story of a man and a gun and a car."
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* WantedPoster: How Meyers meets his doom. The local that he paid to arrange a boat across the Gulf of California to Guyamas sees his wanted poster in a store.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: Meyers hears a news bulletin about himself about three seconds after they find an English-language radio station.
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** Meyers hears a news bulletin about himself about three seconds after they find an English-language radiostation.station.
** Later, while the odd trio are taking a break by the side of the road, the car radio apparently turns itself on in order to deliver another news bulletin about Emmett Meyers.
** Meyers hears a news bulletin about himself about three seconds after they find an English-language radio
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* HollywoodDarkness: Somehow, there is a light shining on the three men, as they camp by a creek in the middle of the Mexican desert wilderness.
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murder spree of Billy Cook]].
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed and co-written by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murder spree of Billy Cook]].
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: Multiple shots in the opening minutes of the movie, showing only Meyers feet and lower body as he's murdering various people and stealing their cars. We don't see his face until eight minutes in when he pulls a gun on Roy and Gilbert.
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Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
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Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) O’Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
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* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen: Much to their horror, Collins and Bowen discovers that Meyer is capable of this. It further complicates their planned escape attempt, as they find themselves unsure of whether he is actually sleeping or not.
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* SunshineNoir: Most of the film takes place in the sunny deserts of Mexico.
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* SunshineNoir: Most of the film takes place in the sunny deserts of Mexico.Mexico.
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murderous spree of Billy Cook]].
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murderous murder spree of Billy Cook]].
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murderous spree of Billy Cook]]. Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murderous spree of Billy Cook]].
Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
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Not to be confused with the [[Series/TheHitchHiker TV series]].
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''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murderous spree of Billy Cook]]. Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
This film has the distinction of being the first FilmNoir directed by a woman, Ida Lupino. She was the only female director working in Hollywood during TheFifties and this film was made with her own production company, The Filmakers.
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!!''The Hitch-Hiker'' shows the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: The bartender’s cousin who alerts the police about Meyers.
* AxCrazy: Meyers is an unstoppable killer and hasn’t killed Collins and Bowen because he needs them to help him escape.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Only just averted: The car goes over a bump and Meyers’ gun goes off. The only reason he didn’t accidently kill Bowen was because it was an empty round.
* KickTheDog: While stealing some gas from a station, a dog starts barking, so Meyers shoots the dog.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Collins begins to beat the hell out of Meyers once he’s caught by the police.
* OhCrap: When Collins and Bowen have escaped, but [[spoiler: Meyers wakes up and catches up to them in the car]].
* ParentalAbandonment: One of the reasons Meyers is a psychotic killer.
* PistolWhipping: Meyers hits Collins over the head for breaking the radio.
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: A lot of scenes are in Spanish without any subtitles.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Meyers’ MO. He thinks that both Collins and Bowen are weak for not being a murderous psycho like him.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: As mentioned above, the story is based on the Billy Cook murders. The film keeps a lot of the details from the real story like Cook having a deformed eye and wanting to escape to Santa Rosalia.
* SpinningPaper: The film begins with Meyers’ killings and the newspaper reportage.
* SunshineNoir: Most of the film takes place in the sunny deserts of Mexico.
''The Hitch-Hiker'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/IdaLupino, based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cook_(criminal) murderous spree of Billy Cook]]. Two friends, Roy Collins (Edmund O’Brian) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy), are driving to Baja California for a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to them, Emmett Meyers (William Talmen) has been on a killing spree, posing as a hitchhiker to his victims and evading the authorities all throughout California. The friends pick up Meyers and find themselves kidnapped and forced at gun point to take Meyers to Santa Rosalia, a fishing town where he can escape to Mexico proper.
This film has the distinction of being the first FilmNoir directed by a woman, Ida Lupino. She was the only female director working in Hollywood during TheFifties and this film was made with her own production company, The Filmakers.
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!!''The Hitch-Hiker'' shows the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: The bartender’s cousin who alerts the police about Meyers.
* AxCrazy: Meyers is an unstoppable killer and hasn’t killed Collins and Bowen because he needs them to help him escape.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Only just averted: The car goes over a bump and Meyers’ gun goes off. The only reason he didn’t accidently kill Bowen was because it was an empty round.
* KickTheDog: While stealing some gas from a station, a dog starts barking, so Meyers shoots the dog.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Collins begins to beat the hell out of Meyers once he’s caught by the police.
* OhCrap: When Collins and Bowen have escaped, but [[spoiler: Meyers wakes up and catches up to them in the car]].
* ParentalAbandonment: One of the reasons Meyers is a psychotic killer.
* PistolWhipping: Meyers hits Collins over the head for breaking the radio.
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: A lot of scenes are in Spanish without any subtitles.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Meyers’ MO. He thinks that both Collins and Bowen are weak for not being a murderous psycho like him.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: As mentioned above, the story is based on the Billy Cook murders. The film keeps a lot of the details from the real story like Cook having a deformed eye and wanting to escape to Santa Rosalia.
* SpinningPaper: The film begins with Meyers’ killings and the newspaper reportage.
* SunshineNoir: Most of the film takes place in the sunny deserts of Mexico.
