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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 9, 2018 4:54:33 GMT
Hitching upon the recent thread from Lebowskidoo I thought I would take to the road with favourite Classic Film Hitch-Hikers … The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) Felix E. Feist Starring Lawrence Tierney and Ted North, Nan Leslie and Betty Lawford. Steve Morgan (Tierney) charming & confident , underneath lurks a calculating, manipulative sociopath. Fleeing a violent crime Steve Hitches a ride to Los Angeles with an unsuspecting family man. The pair pick up Agnes and Carol travellers along the road, and with Steve in control, they all are in for one hell of a ride !! Tierney at his best, an Excellent, fast paced little B Film...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 9, 2018 5:18:11 GMT
GTO (Warren Oates) picks up various hitchhikers, including a hands on hitchhiker (Harry Dean Stanton), as he crosses the country in, Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Monte Hellman.
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 9, 2018 7:31:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2018 8:08:40 GMT
Scarecrow (1973)
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 9, 2018 11:44:47 GMT
Detour has been much-discussed here.
The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer.
Petty sure Luke Askew is picked up hitchhiking in Easy Rider.
Joel McRea thumbs in Sullivan's Travels. Veronica Lake too?
Tom Joad is hitchhiking home from prison in the opening of The Grapes of Wrath.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 9, 2018 12:39:51 GMT
Inside Llewyn Davis
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Post by london777 on Jul 9, 2018 13:39:55 GMT
In Three Into Two Won't Go (1969), Judy Geeson plays a young hitchhiker who muscles her way into the marriage of Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. Directed by Brit theatre grandee Peter Hall, I remember this as one of the best British movies of the 1960s, so I am surprised to see its rating of 5.8 on IMDb. Not available on DVD so I will not get the chance to become disillusioned.
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Post by london777 on Jul 9, 2018 13:44:55 GMT
In The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir: Ida Lupino, friends Edmond O"Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up hitch-hiker William Talman, who makes little secret of his intent to murder them. Oops! I have just noticed that Lebowskidoo has recently started a thread just on this movie. (As Petrolino mentioned, but the penny did not drop). Apologies to both of you.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 9, 2018 13:55:23 GMT
Ann Sheridan accepts a ride from George Raft and Bogey in They Drive By Night.
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Post by london777 on Jul 9, 2018 13:58:16 GMT
In Vanishing Point (1971) dir: Richard C Sarafian, Kowalski (Barry Newman), despite his haste to get from Colorado to San Francisco in record time, finds time to pick up (gay) hitch-hikers: Hitchhiker: I like you, Kowalski... I like you...
Hitchhiker: I've been waiting for you for a long time... Oh, how I've waited...
Kowalski: Yeah? Since when? Where?
Hitchhiker: Oh, everywhere... Everywhere, and since forever... Patiently... Patiently... that's the only way to wait for somebody...
English actress Charlotte Rampling was also in the first cut of the movie playing a hitch-hiker with whom Kowalski has sex. For some strange reason, this scene was cut after preview screenings of the movie. As a Charlotte Rampling fetishist, I have devoted more lines to what was cut from the movie than to what remained. She could only have improved this pretentious cult classic that crammed in every gimmick in an effort to be "daring" and "trendy".
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Post by london777 on Jul 9, 2018 14:29:34 GMT
As mentioned in the recent Detour thread, in Road Movie (1973) dir: Joseph Strick, truckers Robert Drivas and Barry Bostwick pick up Regina Baff. Although she claims to be a hitch-hiker aiming to get from A to B, I seem to remember she is really a hooker catering to truckers, so I am not sure if this counts. (But you can never have too many bad girls in a thread). A wonderful little film noir (and not really a road movie, although they are barreling along the highways for two thirds of the footage), it is also a social realist documentary on the Rust Belt and those struggling to get by. Great photography of the underbelly of the USA rarely seen in movies. And that's not all. The style is somewhat reminiscent of the sci-fi B-movies of the time. After Janis has wreaked final disaster on our dumb heroes, the final scene where she climbs the bank to enter another victim's vehicle is like those sci-fi movies where the unstoppable "thing" moves on to its next unsuspecting host. Very powerful.
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 9, 2018 14:33:55 GMT
WHERE THE BOYS ARE -- the co-eds bound for Fort Lauderdale on spring break pick up hitch-hiker Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad) en route.
BOUND FOR GLORY -- Woody Guthrie (David Carradine) gets a ride on a Depression-era highway from a still rich and fat family ... only to be tossed out when he tells them what he thinks of their plan to eat their way across the country.
PICNIC -- William Holden relates to former college roommate Cliff Robertson his experience of getting rolled by two babes while hitch-hiking down Texas way.
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Post by london777 on Jul 9, 2018 15:01:51 GMT
O Lucky Man! (1973) dir: Lindsay Anderson is one of the all-time great English movies. It is not perfect. Some scenes are slapdash or too long. The political and social satire can be crude and heavy-handed, and the Zingara scenes look dated now. Nonetheless its originality and ambition are astonishing. My main complaint is that, at 3 hours, it is too short. But it is another movie for our "just stopped" thread. It is a bildungsroman, of which road movies are a sub-set. And our hero Mick Travis (played by Malcolm McDowell, whose concept initiated the project) spends a lot of time on the road moving from one educational experience to the next. At one point he hitches a ride from The Alan Price Set, the band whose excellent songs pepper the sound-track, If you've found the reason to live on,/and not to die,/you are a lucky man
and endures their good-natured banter. I think he hitches other rides too. I am long overdue for another watch of this great film.
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Post by jervistetch on Jul 9, 2018 15:31:20 GMT
In EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES, Uma Thurman's character Sissy was born to hitchhike.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 9, 2018 17:33:08 GMT
In The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir: Ida Lupino, friends Edmond O"Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up hitch-hiker William Talman, who makes little secret of his intent to murder them. Oops! I have just noticed that Lebowskidoo has recently started a thread just on this movie. (As Petrolino mentioned, but the penny did not drop). Apologies to both of you. No apologies needed london777 just be sure to pick me up next time I'm hitching a ride in your neck of the woods!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 9, 2018 17:46:01 GMT
The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer. The Hitcher (1986) with Rutger Hauer... ...and the 2007 remake with Sean Bean. Both were great but Hauer had the edge and the creep factor.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 9, 2018 21:54:33 GMT
The Driver and The Mechanic pick up Hitchhiker, The Girl ( Laurie Bird) , in Flagstaff, Arizona, in Two-Lane Blacktop
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 12, 2018 16:34:55 GMT
As mentioned in the recent Detour thread, in Road Movie (1973) dir: Joseph Strick, truckers Robert Drivas and Barry Bostwick pick up Regina Baff. Although she claims to be a hitch-hiker aiming to get from A to B I seem to remember she is really a hooker catering to truckers, so I am not sure if this counts. (But you can never have too many bad girls in a thread). A wonderful little film noir (and not really a road movie, although they are barreling along the highways for two thirds of the footage), it is also a social realist documentary on the Rust Belt and those struggling to get by. Great photography of the underbelly of the USA rarely seen in movies. And that's not all. The style is somewhat reminiscent of the sci-fi B-movies of the time. After Janis has wreaked final disaster on our dumb heroes, the final scene where she climbs the bank to enter another victim's vehicle is like those sci-fi movies where the unstoppable "thing" moves on to its next unsuspecting host. Very powerful. Thanks for mentioning the Road Movie (1973) as I had not heard about it before. I just checked out mini plot from IMDB and it seems it is not a very usual box-office draw kind of movie but a bit different. I will be looking to watch this one in near future.
Talking about 70s I should mention the movie called Hitch-Hike (1973) which stars Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry and David Hess. I very strongly recommend it even though it is not a very unique film. It is very rare for Franco Nero to get outperformed in any movie but I do believe he was in this one from David Hess, who plays a kind of stalker and is a hitch-hiker. As I said the storyline is not entirely unique but the direction is pretty good and you wouldn't feel bored as the performances are very strong. The movie was initially recommended to me a few years ago by pimpinainteasy
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 12, 2018 17:36:11 GMT
I couldn’t find a picture of the hitch-hiking, but how about this curious pair? From Orson Welles’ Ghost Story (a.k.a. Return to Glennascaul), 1951. I saw it as a kid on a tape that also had Three Cases of Murder, which I’ve mentioned here before. Guess I was an Orson fan before I even knew who he was! The ghost story in question, by the way, was also famously filmed for The Twilight Zone, though of course that’s TV.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 12, 2018 18:21:14 GMT
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