The Complete Orson Welles · duane Old Time Radio
Suspense || The Hitch-hiker (Orson Welles) | 1942
·32 min·3 clips
A thin man with a cheap overnight bag appears on Brooklyn Bridge, then reappears hours later on the Pulaski Skyway.
As heard by us
A roadside hitchhiker turns the drive into old-radio dread.
Suspense works by turning a roadside encounter into a careful study of dread. A driver keeps meeting the same hitchhiker along an American route, and each return makes the journey feel thinner, stranger, and less dependable.
Why you'd press play
A lonely road crossing turns into a precise, creeping dread.
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