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...drama itself is confined to one basic situation: captives at the gunpoint mercy of a trigger-happy killer. But, playing this conflict for all it is worth, the movie works up a good deal of sweaty suspense without using false theatrics. As co-scripted and directed by Actress Ida Lupino. The Hitchhiker is a knowing job, as harsh and unrelieved as the barren Mexican settings against which it is played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives, and William Talman is an effective murderer. Good make...
Adapted by Mel Dinelli from his story and play, The Man, the movie is a pseudo-psychological thriller that succeeds in being more sedative than suspenseful. Ida Lupino, looking frail, suffers long and lugubriously, and moody Robert Ryan eventually seems more of a bore than a bogeyman...
Beware, My Lovely (Filmakers; RKO Radio) casts Robert Ryan as a most unhandy man about the house. A psychopathic killer who has just polished off his latest victim. Ryan is hired by World War I Widow Ida Lupino to do some odd jobs in her small-town Victorian home. Before long, Ryan, who is given to mental blackouts and odd fits of anger, has locked all the doors from the inside, ripped the phone from the wall and is scaring Widow Lupino half to death with his menacing attitude...
Married. Ida Lupino, 34, British-born cinemactress; and Howard Duff, 33, actor (radio's "Sam Spade"); she for the third time, the day after her divorce from Collier Young, 42, partner in her independent film company; in Lake Tahoe...
...script overplays Sally's rebellion and her mother's comeuppance as much as it exaggerates the spoils of tennis commercialism. Actress Trevor holds out best, but not entirely, against the abrupt, overwrought style that Director Ida Lupino, staging her fourth movie, seems to have carried over intact from her own jittery screen personality...