Radio review – Suspense – “The Hitchhiker” (1942) ***

Perhaps the second best known script by Lucille Fletcher, who also wrote Sorry Wrong Number, this is a spooky tale about a man driving cross country who is hounded by the constant sight of a hitchhiker. The final twist is now commonplace but it definitely wasn’t then, and is still effective. Best listened to late at night alone at home. Orson Welles plays the panicky driver and is really good – he had a nice line in hysteria by this time, Welles.