Girl on the Road

Episode aired 1958
25m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

207

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A young man helps a beautiful, young woman who is stranded by the side of the road...her cars gas tank empty. He drives her to town to get gas and have a drink. When a bartender calls someon... Read allA young man helps a beautiful, young woman who is stranded by the side of the road...her cars gas tank empty. He drives her to town to get gas and have a drink. When a bartender calls someone named "Morgan Debs" (Karloff), the girl panics and leaves, but promises the young man sh... Read allA young man helps a beautiful, young woman who is stranded by the side of the road...her cars gas tank empty. He drives her to town to get gas and have a drink. When a bartender calls someone named "Morgan Debs" (Karloff), the girl panics and leaves, but promises the young man she will meet with him later and tell him who "Morgan Debs" is. Will they meet? Why do the t... Read all

Director
- George Waggner
Writers
- George Waggner
- Frank P. Bibas
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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

207

YOUR RATING

Director
- George Waggner
Writers
- George Waggner
- Frank P. Bibas
Stars

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This story is a variation on the common modern folktale known as The Vanishing Hitchhiker or The Phantom Hitchhiker. A traveler comes upon a stranded person and gives them a ride. Then the hitchhiker disappears, either suddenly or after being dropped off at another location. Subsequent attempts to find the missing person lead to the discovery that they have been deceased for some time. In one popular version, the Samaritan lends a coat or sweater to the hitchhiker, only to later find it neatly folded over the hitchhiker's tombstone.

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With Lila Kirby's (Eve Brent) car on the side of the road where she ran out of gas, she gets in John Prescott's (Tod Andrews) car who offered his help. As Prescott pulls away, Kirby's car is no longer there.

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7/10

Eerie Second "The Veil" Episode

As a great fan of Classic Horror, I was immediately highly interested in "The Veil", a 1958 TV series of 10 episodes, when I stumbled upon it, mainly since this highly entertaining show was hosted by none other than the great Boris Karloff. A mysterious story about the 'unexplainable, which lies behind the veil' is narrated in each episode. The episodes differ in quality, but they are entirely entertaining. (For more information, read my review of the complete series). This second episode, "Girl On The Road" is one of the eeriest and best in the series, mainly because it maintains a remarkably gloomy atmosphere from the beginning to the end. A man sees a beautiful young woman whose car has broken down, and is determined to help her... I will not give away more, but I can assure that this episode is more than worth a look. It has an amazingly uncanny atmosphere, which sometimes reminded me of Horror Classics such as Herk Harvey's 1962 masterpiece "Carnival Of Souls". Karloff himself has a great role, and the rest of the performances are good too. Overall, this is one of the best and creepiest episodes of the series, and highly recommendable to my fellow Classic Horror buffs.