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- Moreover, Ann Savage was contracted to Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) for the production of Detour for three six-day weeks, and she later said the film was shot in four six-day weeks, with an additional four days of location work in the desert at Lancaster, California.
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Detour is a 1945 American independent [2] [3] 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 ...
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.
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
Detour. 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 dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse ...
- Al Roberts
Jun 7, 1998 · “Detour” tells the story of Al Roberts, played by Tom Neal as a petulant loser with haunted eyes and a weak mouth, who plays piano in a nightclub and is in love, or says he is, with a singer named Sue. Their song, significantly, is “I Can’t Believe You Fell in Love With Me.”
Although Detour was made by Producers Releasing Corporation, one of several studios that specialized in cheaply made B-films, and thus was a “poverty row” movie, it has the distinction of being the first such film to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
May 23, 2024 · Following a restoration, Michael Pogorzelski, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Film Archive, referred to Detour as “one of the best and purest film noirs of all time” in conversation with Criterion. It’s an opinion that’s been echoed by scholars and cinephiles the world over.
