FaH: WOMEN DIRECTORS - The Hitch-Hiker
with introduction.
The first of FaH’s three film specials celebrating women directors
The Hitch-Hiker is based on the true story of killer Billy Cook in 1950, and is the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman.
Set in the early 1950s in California, a hitchhiker has been robbing and killing motorists who stop to offer him a ride. The main suspect, Emmett Myers (played by William Talman), is trying to escape a police manhunt and at gunpoint forces two friends on a fishing trip to take him to where he can get a ferry to Mexico…