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...widow, were waiting as Raymond stopped the car in front of Peter's house, but the cops were not quick enough. While they were crowding out of the police car, Peter shot Raymond through the head, put the rifle to his own skull and pulled the trigger once more. Both died that evening; all of Peter Akulonis' family had been wiped out. In Peter's pocket was a scrawled note: "I love Michael more than life. I loved Mom, Paul, Jimmy, Sis, Peter...
...picture's outcome is fairly predictable, and the drama itself is confined to one basic situation: captives at the gunpoint mercy of a trigger-happy killer. But, playing this conflict for all it is worth, the movie works up a good deal of sweaty suspense without using false theatrics. As co-scripted and directed by Actress Ida Lupino. The Hitchhiker is a knowing job, as harsh and unrelieved as the barren Mexican settings against which it is played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives...
...been making ignition parts ever since 1911 and had more than 50% of the business. But Auto-Lite had lost Henry ford, its biggest single customer, because Henry decided to make his own electric parts. Auto-Lite was also in bad repute because of a bitter strike in which trigger-happy Ohio national guardsmen shot and killed two strikers and wounded five others. Martin was able to talk Auto-Lite's founder, the late Clem Mininger, into a 2½-for-one swap of Moto Meter's stock for Auto-Lite's, and soon after Martin became...
...Trigger Happy...
Terming the Russian pilots "trigger-happy," Hopper commented that unless the United States demonstrates that it means business, this incident may occur again. "It requires a show of strength," he concluded...