The Hitchhiker

Note: This was actually the second of my Hitchhiker reviews, back at the old site. Before I procured the Canadian---more or less---chronological sets, I was working off an American---more or less---best of set. Hence the "Disc's Plot Description" below, a bit not found in the later reviews; the Canadian sets don't have those. Now…

Names: Starring Franco Nero, Sonja Smits, Renee Soutendijk. Music by Michel Rubini. Written by Charles Israel. Directed by Mai Zetterling. Set up: We open panning over some train tracks, a sight none too obscured by what is clearly some dry ice fog. Blonde Sara Kendall (Renee Soutendijk) is walking in slo-mo along a depot…