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“ The Hitchhiker” is a short radio play by acclaimed screenwriter Lucille Fletcher, first presented in 1941 on the Orson Welles Show. Welles and his Mercury Theater performed the suspenseful story of Ronald Adams, a man who is haunted by a mysterious hitchhiker during a cross-country road trip.
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A radio play script of a horror story about a man who encounters a mysterious hitchhiker on a lonely road. The script includes the cast of characters, the narrator's introduction, and the dialogue of the main events.
The Hitch-Hiker is a radio play written by Lucille Fletcher. It was first presented on the November 17, 1941, broadcast of The Orson Welles Show on CBS Radio, featuring a score written and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, Fletcher's first husband.
The words in Column A help Lucille Fletcher tell about one man’s encounter with a mysterious hitchhiker. Match each word with the word or phrase in Column B that is closest in meaning. Column A Column B 1. lark a. guarantee 2. junction b. carefree adventure 3. sinister c. evil 4. assurance d. sameness 5. monotony e. place of joining 91 ...
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“The Hitchhiker” draws its horror from several elemental human fears: death, isolation, and madness. Fletcher ultimately suggests that death, while terrifying, must be accepted as the natural and inescapable ending to life.
Nov 3, 2019 · Read in the old time radio tradition of the 1940s, this masterpiece of suspense & the radio play classic tells the spine-tingling story of a man on a cross-country drive who...
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In “The Hitchhiker,” the titular character is a personification of Death who follows Adams across America. The hitchhiker’s unflagging pursuit of Adams represents the central theme of Fletcher’s play: that death is the natural, unavoidable conclusion of the human experience, and there is no sense in trying to outrun fate.
