Hitch-hike
Franco Nero and Corinne Cléry play a couple touring America with a Caravan. The pair bicker constantly and engage in rough sex, much to the disgust of people at the camping sites they stay at. Nero is an abrasive drunk who has a habit of alienating anyone he meets while Clery seems to enable if not encourage this behaviour while acting disgusted by it. The pair pick up a hitch hiker played by David Hess. As you can imagine this was a big mistake and he begins to terrorise the couple at gun point. He's robbed a bank and has two million dollars on him. Nero's character eyes this and there begins a battle of wits between the three characters.
Hitch hike is a nasty little road movie. Its got no likeable characters. Pretty much everyone in it is a self absorbed, abrasive creep. Its probably the only David Hess film where he's actively struggling to be the most despicable person on screen. It's credit to the film then that its made to work and the film becomes very engaging, even tense as the final act draws close.
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