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The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Name: The Hitch-Hiker
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1953
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, José Torvay, William Talman, Natividad Vacío

195371 minCrime & MysteryStrong rights evidence

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is a 71-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Case Files (CH 9) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Ida Lupino.

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About The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 American thriller film noir directed by Ida Lupino, who co-wrote it with her former husband Collier Young, and starring Edmond O'Brien, William Talman and Frank Lovejoy. Based on the 1950 killing spree of Billy Cook, the film follows two friends who are taken hostage by a serial-murdering hitchhiker during an automobile trip to Mexico.

In California, two friends, Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen, leave one evening on a planned fishing trip to San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. They cross the Mexico–United States border at Calexico-Mexicali and continue on through the night. They pick up hitchhiker Emmett Myers, who pulls a gun and holds them hostage. Myers is a serial killer who has already kidnapped and murdered three other motorists in similar fashion.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Hitch-Hiker (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Ida Lupino
Cast includes: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, José Torvay, William Talman, Natividad Vacío, Jean Del Val, Nacho Galindo, Wade Crosby
Country: United States

Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article

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Adrenaline - CH 1, Action TV
Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources).
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Source: Internet Archive

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