I couldn't stand more than :15 minutes of this $#!+. Instead of running for all she was worth, she kept stopping to wait for her attacker to catch up. Then she gets in the truck, hits the horn, and it sticks!
When she fell down, and then just lay there, I had to turn it off.
This could have been done better.
You are sooo right. Pitiful. I went back to opening of World Cup.
shareYes, she should have run faster and gotten away, she deserved to be raped!
(This is basically what you're implying, even though I'm sure you don't mean to.)
The rapist was going to rape her - period. It was a nicely shot scene, even if WE feel she should have tried harder, you know, to not get raped. (He might have tried not to rape her, of course, but that's another issue.)
Her behavior is typical for female characters in the 1940s-50s. Weak, falling, docile. Director Lupino was sticking with the warped gender definitions of the time. Too bad you didn't finish the film. If you watch it in context, meaning, knowing it was only the second film EVER to deal with rape, and it was made in 1950, you might have appreciated its progressiveness. Still, it's not perfect by any means.
Yeah that must have been one of the most ridiculous "chase scenes" in the history of film - the chick runs for some ten meters, then stops to wait around, pinned to a spot for half a minute. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Then blow the goddamn horn, but don't attempt to escape far from the truck. Ever heard of a 100 meter dash? That'd have done it, regardless of the time it'd taken. But of course the film is insistent of painting the young hussy as one of the most idiotic characters ever to have graced the screen, so there's that.
And it's a terrible film through and through - a ludicrously, ridiculously over-the-top moralizing melodrama where half of the dialogue is a sanctimoneous preaching occasion about social problems and sh-t and where the central female performance is so horrid as to be basically unwatchably (and the saintly, religiously ultra-righteous hunk that looked like one of Tom Jones's better bred forefathers, did not fare any better). Ida Lupino made a real effective noir out of The Hitch-Hiker in 1953, but this film is both pitiful and laughable.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
Yeah, but don't you think this happens in a lot of movies and tv shows, especially through the 70s? I've seen many a detective show on tv in the 70s where the victim heads towards the darkest place imaginable instead of out in the open. I always thought how stupid are you? Look at all the slasher movies. Isn't that why that one commercial of all the kids running from some guy with the chainsaw is do funny? They don't jump in a running car, but end up heading towards the cemetery?
At least Ann knocked on a door trying to get help.
I know right? Anyone would think it was a movie! By the way, people do stupid stuff when they are stressed and often things don't work when we most need them to.