The Devil Thumbs a Ride

The Devil Thumbs a Ride is a 1947 film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and featuring Lawrence Tierney and Ted North.

When the film was released The New York Times film critic dismissed the film, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, which came to the Rialto yesterday, is a distinctly pickup affair ... In the role of the thug Lawrence Tierney, who played Dillinger a couple of years back, behaves with the customary arrogance of all gunmen in cheap Hollywood films. It is pictures like this which give the movies a black eye and give us a pain in the neck.Recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz was also critical of the film, writing, Felix E. Feist The Man Who Cheated HimselfDonovans BrainThe Threat directs and writes this ugly hitchhiker crime drama that has little entertainment value, the characters other than the main protagonist are too incredibly dull to ring true and it has no redeeming social value. The lowbudget programmer is helped only by its noir look, fastpace, the manic performance by Lawrence Tierney and the offbeat nature of its story ... Feist fills both the police car and the hitchers car with noir characters, but it ends up as a ride to nowhere. ........

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