FaH: WOMEN DIRECTORS – The Hitch-Hiker
with introduction and discussion
Doors 7.00pm – Film Intro 7.15pm – Film Screening 7.30pm
The first of FaH’s three film specials celebrating women directors
Dir Ida Lupino/1hr 11mins/Cert.15/B+W/1953
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…
7.15pm Film introduction from Alice Miller, researcher and film programmer
7.30pm Film screening
8.45pm Discussion
Tickets £6.50/£5.50 concessions available from HEART reception and online
