The Voyage of the fear

the Voyage of the fear ( The Hitch-Hiker ) is a Black film carried out by Ida Lupino and left in 1953.

First Black film directed by a woman, the film is written by Robert L. Joseph, Ida Lupino and Collier Young. The scenario writer Daniel Mainwaring took part in the writing of the scenario but listed by MacCarthy, it is not credited.

The history is based on actual facts, Lupino met several victims of the criminal Billy Cook which film takes as a starting point.

Synopsis

A killer haunts the desert roads while being made pass for a hitch-hiker near the rare cars which cross its way. Soon tracked, it is solved to flee by threatening two hunters which lead it to Mexico. Constrained by the carrier of the gun, the two men do not manage to release themselves from its yoke. But once recognized by the autochtones, it tries to take the sea but is done stopped by the police force before having been able to embark.

Distribution

Edmond O' Brien: Roy Hakes
Frank Lovejoy: Gilbert Bowen
William Talman: Emmett Myers the killer
Jose Torvay: Captain Alvarado

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Quotation

"My folks were tough. When I was born, they took one look At this pus off mine and told me to get lost." - Emmett Myers

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