The Hitch-Hiker (1953) TAAAOTW edit
Channel: TW's Art Adventures
Date: 2022-02-11

This is a fan edit of the film The Hitch-Hiker by Ida Lupino. I decided to edit this because I felt like it's so close to being a perfect classic film, it just suffers from a few slight drawbacks and dated issues.

I fixed all of the audio sync problems, I removed the entire beginning seeing the dude killing people and the news reporting it, I'm not sure why this is needed. I kept the intro warning text though, that stuff is real fun. Mine has the opening credits playing over a hitchiker not being picked up. Then fades into the two leads. I cut the whole waste of time scene with the hiker shooting and making the guy shoot the can, right after he shoots and misses the rabbit mine fades into the car driving on the road again. I removed the lines, "Like what?" "that news guy from the states". It's much better if they "stumble" upon the news report, it makes the hitchhiker seem smarter. I removed the second news report, the reporter and the whole montage army of police going to look for the guy. After the radio broadcast is turned off mine fades into the night time driving shot. I removed the frame skip. I added a better pistol whip sound effect. Removed the second round of montage of police work, I don't get why these are just stuck throughout. The rest remains unedited. I feel like these are minimal changes, I'm only trying to enhance the director's vision which I felt was lost in unnecessary exposition. My version looks more like something you'd find in the criterion.