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Detour is a 1945 American independent [2] film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The screenplay was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's 1939 novel of the same title , and released by the Producers Releasing Corporation , one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid-20th-century Hollywood. [ 3 ]
Detour: Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. With Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald. The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- 1946-01-25
1470755663. The epitome of the American Film Noir Genre, Detour tells the story of a down-on-his-luck pianist who goes on an ill-fated car ride leaving the driver dead. Worse, he gets stuck with a woman who blackmails him to no end under the threat she will go to the police and claim he murdered the driver, even though the driver's death had ...
- 69 min
- 5.9K
- aMessengerFromTheShadows
Detour (1945) Detour (1945) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis In New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for ...
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- Tom Neal
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Crime, Drama
Jun 7, 1998 · "Detour" is a movie so filled with imperfections that it would not earn the director a passing grade in film school. This movie from Hollywood's poverty row, shot in six days, filled with technical errors and ham-handed narrative, starring a man who can only pout and a woman who can only sneer, should have faded from sight soon after it was released in 1945.
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Benjamin H. Kline. Edited by. George McGuire. Art director. Edward C. Jewell. Musical score. Erdody. From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a ...
