The Hitch-Hiker went into production on 24 June 1952 and wrapped in late July.

Despite the dissension, the trio put its new work ethic to the test in the studio, releasing the Top 10 single " Sweet Hitch-Hiker " in July 1971, backed with Stu Cook's " Door to Door.

She does not appear in the best-known film she directed, The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ), developed by her company, The Filmakers, with support and distribution by RKO.

A popular example of this is The Hitch-Hiker, read by Orson Welles.

The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ) is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico.

In 1998, The Hitch-Hiker was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being " culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

The Hitch-Hiker was her first hard-paced fast-moving picture after four " woman's " films about social issues.

The Hitch-Hiker premiered in Boston on 20 March 1953 and immediately went into general release.

The New York Times gave The Hitch-Hiker a mixed review on its initial release.

Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.

In addition to her critical but compassionate sensibility, Lupino had a great filmmaker's eye, using the starkly beautiful street scenes in Not Wanted and the gorgeous, ever-present loneliness of empty highways in The Hitch-Hiker to set her characters apart.

" The Hitch-Hiker " is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

The 1971 hit single " Sweet Hitch-Hiker "/" Door to Door " was included on the album.

Her earlier performance was in one of the first season's most unsettling episodes, " The Hitch-Hiker ", in which she played another tormented character, a lone driver who meets her inexorable fate in the personification of death.

He contributed the score to the famed 1941 radio presentation of Fletcher's original story, The Hitch-Hiker, on the Orson Welles Show ; and Fletcher helped to write the libretto for his operatic adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

After four " woman's " films about social issues – including Outrage ( 1950 ), a film about rape – Lupino directed her first hard-paced, fast-moving picture, The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ), making her the first woman to direct a film noir.

In her films The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker Lupino was able to reduce the male to the same sort of dangerous, irrational force that women represented in most male-directed examples of Hollywood film noir.

* In 1941, the Orson Welles Show presented the debut broadcast of Lucille Fletcher's The Hitch-Hiker, starring Orson Welles.

" The Hitch-Hiker ", an episode of The Twilight Zone, and the episode " RoadKill " of the TV series Supernatural, were notable television adaptations of this particular variation.

It is similar to Lucille Fletcher's original radio play, The Hitch-Hiker, which was first performed in 1941 on the Orson Welles Show starring Welles as the spooked driver.

Appearing in movies such as Goodbye, My Fancy ( 1951 ) with Joan Crawford, and The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ) directed by Ida Lupino, Lovejoy was effective playing the movie's everyman in extraordinary situations.

His film production credits included Outrage and The Hitch-Hiker, both with Lupino as director.

The fact that Mainwaring's work on Ida Lupino's film noir The Hitch-Hiker was not credited is most likely due to non-political reasons.

Joseph's screen credits included The Hitch-Hiker and The Third Secret.

* " The Small Rain "-First published in March, 1959 in the Cornell Writer, No. 2, pp. 14 – 32.

* " Low-lands "-First published in New World Writing, No. 16, Philadelphia: Lippincott, on 16 March 1960, pp. 85 – 108.

* " Entropy "-First published in the Kenyon Review 22, No. 2, in Spring 1960, pp. 27 – 92.

* " Under the Rose "-First published in The Noble Savage 3 in May 1961, pp. 233 – 251.

* " The Secret Integration "-First published December 26, 1964 in The Saturday Evening Post 237 No. 45, pp. 36 – 37, 39, 42-44, 46-49, 51.

* " Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life "-First published in The Daily Telegraph in 1974

* " Beware of the Dog "-First published in Harper's in October 1944.

* " Bitch "-First published in Playboy in July 1974.

* " The Bookseller "-First published in Playboy in January 1986.

* " The Champion of the World "-First published in The New Yorker on 31 January 1959.

* " Death of an Old Old Man "-First published in Ladies Home Journal in September 1945.

* " Dip in the Pool "-First published in The New Yorker on 19 January 1952.

* " Edward the Conqueror "-First published in The New Yorker on 31 October 1953.

* " Galloping Foxley "-First published in Town & Country in November 1953.

* " The Great Switcheroo "-First published in Playboy in April 1974.

* " Katina "-First published in Ladies Home Journal in March 1944.

* " Lamb to the Slaughter "-First published in Harper's in September 1953.

* " The Landlady "-First published in The New Yorker on 28 November 1959.

* " The Last Act "-First published in Playboy in January 1966.

* " Madame Rosette "-First published in Harper's in August 1945.

* " Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat "-First published in Nugget in December 1959.

* " My Lady Love, My Dove "-First published in The New Yorker on 21 June 1952.

* " Only This "-First published in Ladies Home Journal in September 1944.

* " Parson's Pleasure "-First published in Esquire in April 1958.