THE HITCH-HIKER directed by Ida Lupino (USA, 1953)
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and gun” said Jean-Luc Godard but what did he know?
The opening of The Hitch-Hiker says that ‘This is the true story of a man and a gun and a car’ – no mention a girl and aside from the scream (off camera) of the killer’s first victim, women are conspicuous by their absence.
Yet there is the, not insignificant, detail that there is a  ‘girl’ behind the camera since this is the first noir film out of hundreds to be directed by a woman. Continue reading
