The Hitch-Hiker (The Twilight Zone)
" The Hitch- Hiker" is episode sixteen of the American television anthology series" The Twilight Zone".
It originally aired on January 22, 1960 on CBS.
It is based on Lucille Fletcher's radio play" The Hitch- Hiker".
It is frequently listed among the series' greatest episodes.
Frank Lovejoy
Frank Andrew Lovejoy Jr.( March 28, 1912 – October 2, 1962) was an American actor in radio, film, and television.
He is perhaps best remembered for appearing in the film noir" The Hitch- Hiker" and for starring in the radio drama" Night Beat".
Noel Quiñones
Noel Quiñones( born Noel A. Quiñones Motta; July 20, 1959) is a Puerto Rican screenwriter, film director, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist who divides his time between filmmaking and advocating for improvements in public education in countries around the world, such as Brazil, Puerto Rico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Argentina, Spain, Mexico and the United States of America.
He won an Emmy for his work and currently does motivational speaking now that he is in a wheelchair due to a spinal- chord disease.
Flight of Fancy (film)
Flight of Fancy is a 2000 Puerto Rican- American film starring Dean Cain, Talisa Soto and Miguel Sandoval.
It was co-written and directed by Noel Quiñones.
Hitchhiker (disambiguation)
A hitchhiker is someone who goes hitchhiking.
Hitchhiker, The Hitchhiker or The Hitch- Hiker may also refer to:
The Hitch-Hiker
The Hitch- Hiker is a 1953 film noir directed by Ida Lupino, about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico.
Inspired by the crime spree of the psychopathic murderer Billy Cook( 1928 – 1952), the screenplay was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino, and her former husband Collier Young, based on a story by blacklisted" Out of the Past" screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring( who did not receive screen credit).
" The Hitch- Hiker" is regarded as the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
The film is in the public domain.
Flight of Fancy
Flight( s) of Fancy may refer to:
Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress, singer, director, and producer.
She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent, and one of the only, female filmmakers working during the 1950s in the Hollywood studio system.
With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir with "The Hitch-Hiker" in 1953.
Throughout her 48-year career, she made acting appearances in 59 films and directed eight others, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948.
She also directed more than 100 episodes of television productions in a variety of genres including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories.
She was the only woman to direct episodes of the original "The Twilight Zone" series (most notably "The Masks"), as well as the only director to have starred in the show.
The Hitch-Hiker (radio play)
The Hitch- Hiker is a radio play written by Lucille Fletcher.
It was first presented on the November 17, 1941, broadcast of" The Orson Welles Show" on CBS Radio, featuring a score written and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, Fletcher's first husband.
Welles performed" The Hitch- Hiker" four times on radio, and the play was adapted for a notable 1960 episode of the television series" The Twilight Zone".
An American Hippie in Israel
An American Hippie in Israel, also known as Ha- Trempist( from Hebrew הטרמפיסט," The Hitch- hiker"), is a 1972 Israeli metaphorical counter- culture film written and directed by Amos Sefer starring Asher Tzarfati.
Many have cited this film as one of the worst films ever made.
Once thought lost, it was rediscovered decades later by the cult film enthusiasts at Grindhouse Releasing who have digitally restored the film and presented it in Blu-ray and DVD.

Question: Are the directors of films Flight Of Fancy (Film) and The Hitch-Hiker both from the same country?
Answer: yes