Hit and Run

""I can't give you anything but love--and murder, baby!""

Mar 15 1957 Approved 1h 27m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A garage owner marries a much younger woman. Trouble begins when he becomes friends with a man who has his eyes on his former-showgirl wife.

Plot

Garage owner Gus Hilmer marries showgirl Julie, many years his junior, and this causes a conflict between Gus and Frankie, a young mechanic he has befriended. FRankie falls in love with Julie and she, as expected in any Hugo Hass film, can not resist his advances. Frankie puts together an automobile out of parts lying around in Gus's junkyard, and forces Julie to accompany him, as he follows Gus and runs him down on a lonely road, and later dismantles the car/murder weapon. Unexpected by the lovers, but not any audience that had seen any Hass film, his twin brother, just release from prison, turns up at the reading of the will, and moves in as half-owner of the garage. So, he and his brother's widow then get together and knock off Frankie? No, nothing that simple from Hair-Shirt Hugo.

Written by

Herbert O. Phillips, Hugo Haas

Directed by

Hugo Haas

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

United Artists, Hugo Haas Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
647
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA