SPOILERS?
I haven't seen the film in a while, but I recall liking it a whole lot. Tom Neal plays a drifter who is hitchhiking across the country (on Rte. 66, probably). One man who helps him dies while sleeping in the car. Tom doesn't want the blame to fall on his head, so he dumps the body by the side of the road and continues on in the man's car. I can't remember how, but he meets a girl, and they ride into California together. She is, I think, related to the man, and blackmails Tom, threatening to go to the police. They pawn the car and get an apartment (I think), where she accidentally strangles herself. Tom, to avoid deeper trouble, takes off and stops at the diner from the beginning of the film. I won't tell the ending, just watch this masterpiece of an early film.
8 out of 10!
I haven't seen the film in a while, but I recall liking it a whole lot. Tom Neal plays a drifter who is hitchhiking across the country (on Rte. 66, probably). One man who helps him dies while sleeping in the car. Tom doesn't want the blame to fall on his head, so he dumps the body by the side of the road and continues on in the man's car. I can't remember how, but he meets a girl, and they ride into California together. She is, I think, related to the man, and blackmails Tom, threatening to go to the police. They pawn the car and get an apartment (I think), where she accidentally strangles herself. Tom, to avoid deeper trouble, takes off and stops at the diner from the beginning of the film. I won't tell the ending, just watch this masterpiece of an early film.
8 out of 10!