Tossup
A killer introduced doing this activity forces a man to shoot a can out of his friend’s hand in the Mexican desert. While doing this activity, a character is told that the scratches on a man’s hand come from “a dame with claws.” A person who does this activity titles a cult noir directed by Ida Lupino. An almost naked person doing this activity meets Mike Hammer at the beginning of Kiss Me Deadly. An out-of-luck pianist doing this activity assumes the identity of a dead gambler in (*) Detour. In a TV adaptation of a Lucille Fletcher radio play, a person doing activity mysteriously keeps appearing while Nan Adams drives across the country. For 10 points, a Twilight Zone episode personifies death as a person doing what activity on the side of the road? ■END■
ANSWER: hitchhiking [accept The Hitch-Hiker; prompt on traveling across the country with “in what manner?”; prompt on driving, riding in a car]
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