This week Connor is joined by Michelle Johnson to discuss the only main-stream American film noir directed by a woman: The Hitch-Hiker. They compare the two hostages situation to that of film & TV crews under tyrannical show runners, how Ida Lupino subtly flipped the genre, and just how underrated of a filmmaker she is.

WARNING: Major spoilers for The Hitch-Hiker, The Bigamist, & Not Wanted

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Book Mentioned: The Mirage Factory - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541714/the-mirage-factory-by-gary-krist/

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Films mentioned in this episode:

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• The Hitch-Hiker (1953) | Dir. Ida Lupino
• Ravenous (1999) | Dir. Antonia Bird
• High Sierra (1941) | Dir. Raoul Walsh
• Not Wanted (1949) | Dir. Ida Lupino, Elmer Clifton
• The Bigamist (1953) |  Dir. Ida Lupino
• The Da Vinci Code (2006) | Dir. Ron Howard
• The Lord of the Rings (1978) | Dir. Ralph Bakshi
• Seven Psychopaths (2012) | Dir. Martin McDonagh
• Jurassic Park (1993) | Dir. Steven Spielberg
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) | Dir. John Huston
• Jaws (1975) | Dir. Steven Spielberg
• Lincoln (2012) | Dir. Steven Spielberg
• Bridge of Spies (2015) | Dir. Steven Spielberg
• Ready Player One (2018) | Dir. Steven Spielberg
• The Lego Movie (2014) | Dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
• Wreck-It Ralph (2012) | Dir. Rich Moore
• Schindler's List (1993) | Dir. Steven Spielberg
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) | Dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) | Dir. Brad Silberling
• Dumbo (2019) | Dir. Tim Burton
• Nosferatu (1922) | Dir. F.W. Murnau
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | Dir. Robert Weine
• The Golem (1920) | Dir. Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Dir. David Lean
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) | Dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Outrage (1950) | Dir. Ida Lupino
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) | Dir. D.W. Griffith
• North by Northwest (1959) | Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• Legend of the Guardian: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | Dir. Zack Snyder
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) | Dir. Zack Snyder
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Deadwood: The Movie (2019) | Dir. Daniel Minahan
• Dunkirk (2017) | Dir. Christopher Nolan
• 1917 (2019) | Dir. Sam Mendes
• Zodiac (2007) | Dir. David Fincher
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) | Dir. David Fincher
• Gone Girl  (2014) | Dir. David Fincher
• Se7en (1995) | Dir. David Fincher