The Hi-Jackers is a 1963 black and white British crime thriller film written and directed by Jim O'Connolly, starring Anthony Booth and Jacqueline Ellis.
[1] Long-distance independent lorry driver Terry meets homeless and unemployed Shirley at a transport cafe and gives her a lift.
Monthly Film Bulletin said: "One or two aspirations towards originality – Carter's proficiency as a cook, a gangster's almost prudish refusal to take advantage of Shirley's helplessness – cannot disguise the formulary nature of this crime melodrama.
The plot is thin and unconvincing; the heroine is one of those tiresomely well-spoken young women whose bursts of spirit (she is not averse to moral blackmail) strike one as both incongruous and unsympathetic.
For a struggling haulage contractor Terry has a remarkably luxurious apartment; there's something gratuitously "snob", too, about Patrick Cargill's supercilious police inspector.