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...Hitchhiker (The Filmakers; RKO Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...
...picture has it that Alexander's decline was due to diplopia (double vision) after being hit on the head with a baseball. As a result, he takes to drink, but with the encouragement of his wife (Doris Day) and St. Louis Cardinal Manager Rogers Hornsby (Frank Lovejoy), he makes a dramatic comeback and helps the Cardinals win the 1926 World Series...
...against some forceful battle sequences that make use of authentic stock war footage is a cast of not-so-authentic stock characters. Among them: a hardboiled, softhearted colonel (Frank Lovejoy);* a boy who becomes a man under fire (Rusty Tamblyn); a retread captain (Richard Carlson); and, for laughs, a Southern marine who wisecracks during the Korean action: "This is one war that makes sense-North against the South...
...Lovejoy delivers the historic rejoinder of Major General Oliver P. Smith, then commander of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, who, when asked if his troops were retreating, said: "Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction." (A variation on the fighting words of Marine Captain Lloyd W. Williams, who, when ordered to retreat at Belleau Wood in World War I, replied: "Retreat, hell! We just got here.") Passed by a special ruling of Hollywood's censors, the forbidden screen word "hell" has already met with censorship troubles elsewhere. When...
Though Kahn's lyrics are distinguished mainly for the volume in which he turned them out, his collaborators, notably Walter Donaldson (Frank Lovejoy), wrote many a good tune, and the film riffles through a fat catalogue of such old hits as It Had to Be You, Love Me or Leave Me, Memories, Nobody's Sweetheart Now, The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else...