The only true film noir ever directed by a woman, this tour de force thriller (considered by many, including Lupino herself, to be her best film) is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond OBrien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by psychopathic serial killer Emmett Myers (William Talman). The striking light/dark contrasts, the stunning compositions (the two kidnap victims separated by a narrow stream from a gun-cradling madman with a bum eye) and the spatial integrity of a determining sense of locale (the pitiless topography of a rock-bound, horizonless Mexico over which hovers an ever-present doom) all contribute mightily to this fascinating character-study. Ida Lupino, Hollywoods sole female filmmaker of the 1950s, directs an all-male cast in a taut, 70-minute thriller. Frank Lovejoy and Edmund OBrien are two war buddies taking a break from the wives for a Mexican fishing trip a hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a crazed killer wanted in nine states (William Talman, later the perennially defeated district attorney on Perry Mason) who forces them at gunpoint to drive him through the desert. Talmans Everett Myers is a fascinatingly abstract creation, filmed by Lupino first as a discorporate flurry of hands and feet, then as a satanic figure whose grinning, key-lighted face seems to float by itself in space. With his paralyzed right eye (he sleeps with it wide open), Myers may represent the return of the fascist evil the two men confronted during the war he may also represent something inherently violent in the American male that, having been liberated by the war, has to be faced down and defeated by the two vets before they can return to a normal life. Lupinos use of the desert setting, rich with associations of nuclear devastation, seems to look forward to the science fiction films that would flourish later in the decade. --Dave Kehr Director: Ida Lupino Actors: Edmond OBrien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman Release: 1953 Taglines: - When was the last time you invited death into your car? - Wholl be his next victim YOU? - theres Death in his upraised Thumb To watch more free movies on youtube take a look at my channel. I have a large selection of full length film suiting every taste. The Hitch-Hiker ✪FREE FULL MOVIE✪ Film-Noir / CrimeUNLIMITED MOVIE DOWNLOADS @ The Hitch-Hiker (1953) 71 min - Thriller Film-Noir Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict. Director: Ida Lupino Writers: Collier Young (screenplay), Ida Lupino (screenplay) Stars: Edmond OBrien, Frank Lovejoy and William TalmanThe HitchHiker FREE FULL MOVIE Film-NoirThe Stranger is often considered Orson Welles most traditional Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary (Loretta Young). One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman named Meineke (Konstantin Shayne) arrives in town. Professor Rankin seems disturbed--but not unduly so--by Meinekes presence. He invites the stranger for a walk in the woods, and as they journey farther and farther away from the center of town, we learn that kindly professor Rankin is actually notorious Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. Conscience-stricken by his own genocidal wartime activities, Meineke has come to town to beg his ex-superior Kindler to give himself up. The professor responds by brutally murdering his old associate. If Kindler believes himself safe--and he has every reason to do so, since no one in town, especially Mary, has any inkling of his previous life--he will change his mind in a hurry when mild-mannered war crimes commissioner Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) pays a visit, posing as an antiques dealer. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi -- From Rotten Tomatoes Edward G. Robinson, playing a war crimes detective named Wilson, lets loose one of the right-hand men of an important Nazi war criminal named Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) who escaped prison and managed to erase his identity. He was the mastermind behind the concentration camps. No photographs exist of him, and only this goon might know where he is. Wilson tracks the goon to a small town in Connecticut, where Franz Kindler is posing as a history professor about to marry the daughter of an important politician. Immediately the goon disappears, but the professor arouses Wilsons suspicion. Director: Orson Welles Actors: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young Release: 1946 Taglines: The Most Deceitful Man A Woman Ever Loved To watch more free movies on youtube take a look at my channel. I have a large selection of full length film su

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