The Hitch-Hiker
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
From the archive
The Hitchhiker is a 1953 black and white movie film which has been colorised, upscaled to 4K, and frames per second boosted to 60 FPS in 2021 using Artificial Intelligence (A.I) and Google Colab @ https://colab.research.google.com Technologies used: A.I. Colorizing: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify A.I. Increasing frame rate 60 FPS: https://rife-vfi.github.io A.I. Upscaling to 4K: https://ffmpeg.org GPU: Google Colab. This movie is in public domain category and it is Copyright free.
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- Director
- Ida Lupino
- Starring
- Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Sam Hayes, Wendell Niles, Jean Del Val, Clark Howat
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