National Film Registry
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
DirectorRobert Aldrich
StarringRalph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernández, Wesley Addy
ComposerFrank De Vol
National Film Registry
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
DirectorRobert Aldrich
StarringRalph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernández, Wesley Addy
ComposerFrank De Vol
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