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    Hitch Hike To Hell (1977)

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    “She’s about to go on the ride of her life . . . it won’t last long!!”

    Howard Martin (Robert Gribbin) is a mild-mannered 25-year-old bespectacled introvert who lives at home with his widowed mother (sister Judy ran away years ago and broke mama’s heart) and drives a truck for a commercial laundry called Baldwin Cleaners.

    One day Howard spots a hitchhiker and something snaps in his head. He thinks she’s Judy and he feels compelled to punish her for what she did to mama. So he rapes her, strangles her, leaves her for dead in a field, and retains no memory of his crime.

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    Madness takes root and grows, the body count rises, and Howard begins to have flashbacks. He seeks refuge at his mother’s breast.

    Captain J.W. Shaw (Russell Johnson, known to millions of TV fans as The Professor from Gilligan’s Island) and Lieutenant Davis (Randy Echos) of the Crescent City Police Department begin to investigate. The police are going nuts, they want to catch this killer.

    Tragically, they get the break they need to crack the case when Howard loses his temper with an 11-year old runaway called Lisa (Sheryl Lynn) who ends up in a dumpster with a Baldwin Cleaners delivery clutched in her dead hand.

    Howard’s fate is a padded cell where he calls pitifully for his mother.

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    Howard Martin
    Robert Gribbin
    Capt J.W. Shaw
    Russell Johnson
    Mr Baldwin
    John Harmon
    Lt Davis
    Randy Echols
    Mrs Martin
    Dorothy Bennett
    Mrs Burke
    Mary Ellen Christie
    Evelyn Davis
    Kippi Bell
    Lisa
    Sheryl Lynn
    Mr Burke
    John Grant
    Sharon
    Jacqueline Poseley
    Pam
    Beth Reis
    Gail
    Jane Ratliff
    Connie
    Melanie Sutherland
    Phyllis
    Petra Michelle
    Gay Boy
    Don Lewis
    Lydia Welles
    Gail Bowman
    Mr Lathrop
    Vincent Lucchesi
    Mrs Lathrop
    Ginny Morrel
    Main Title Victim
    Debra Draper

    Director
    Irvin Berwick

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