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Ida Lupino was an actor in some classic movies for close to 50 years, but she directed a few classic thrillers in the '50s too. The Hitch-Hiker is her crowning achievement, with William Tallman doing a wonderfully sinister job in the titular role. He's one of the underrated great villains in cinema history. Edmond O'Brien & Frank Lovejoy are the men he kidnaps and forces them to drive him to Mexico. Only, they don't get to be nearly as interesting. In this one-man show, Ryan reads perhaps more into the hitch-hiker's psychology and his hostage's PTSD than Lupino intended...but this DOES appear to be a deeper film than many have given it credit for. So jump in the back seat and menace the front-seaters as this 665th dose of Have You Ever Seen movie-reviewing looks into the goings on in The Hitch-Hiker.
Check out our sponsor, Sparkplug Coffee. They give our listeners a onetime 20% savings if they use our "HYES" promo code. So the website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes".
Subscribe to our show in your podcast app, but also on YouTube (@hyesellis in the search bar). Write a review of our channel and rate us too.
Share your thoughts about this episode or any other by writing us an email ([email protected]). On Bluesky, Ryan is "ryan-ellis" and on Twi-X is "@moviefiend51". Bev is "bevellisellis" on the 'Sky and "@bevellisellis" on the Twitter machine.
By Ryan Ellis4.3
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Ida Lupino was an actor in some classic movies for close to 50 years, but she directed a few classic thrillers in the '50s too. The Hitch-Hiker is her crowning achievement, with William Tallman doing a wonderfully sinister job in the titular role. He's one of the underrated great villains in cinema history. Edmond O'Brien & Frank Lovejoy are the men he kidnaps and forces them to drive him to Mexico. Only, they don't get to be nearly as interesting. In this one-man show, Ryan reads perhaps more into the hitch-hiker's psychology and his hostage's PTSD than Lupino intended...but this DOES appear to be a deeper film than many have given it credit for. So jump in the back seat and menace the front-seaters as this 665th dose of Have You Ever Seen movie-reviewing looks into the goings on in The Hitch-Hiker.
Check out our sponsor, Sparkplug Coffee. They give our listeners a onetime 20% savings if they use our "HYES" promo code. So the website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes".
Subscribe to our show in your podcast app, but also on YouTube (@hyesellis in the search bar). Write a review of our channel and rate us too.
Share your thoughts about this episode or any other by writing us an email ([email protected]). On Bluesky, Ryan is "ryan-ellis" and on Twi-X is "@moviefiend51". Bev is "bevellisellis" on the 'Sky and "@bevellisellis" on the Twitter machine.

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