The FOFIF is sliding from horror October to #Noirvember with Ida Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER (along with a special Lupino short beforehand) at @nitehawkcinema on November 15. THE HITCH-HIKER is the first mainstream noir film directed by a woman (Ida Lupino who also co-wrote the film) and is perhaps best remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip who are held captive by a homicidal drifter. He forces them, at gunpoint, to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert. Renegade filmmaking at its finest, THE HITCH-HIKER was independently produced, which allowed Lupino and ex-husband/producer Collier Young to work from a treatment by blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that was too brutal for the major studios to even consider. Get tickets via our LIB or here: https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/movies/the-hitch-hiker/?date=2022-11-15 #futureoffilmisfemale #pastoffilmisfemale #noir