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Detour is a 1945 American independent 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 ...
- $20,000-$100,000
- Leo Erdody
- Leon Fromkess
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.
- (19K)
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Passed
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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. And yet it lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir.
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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
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Detour (1945) Movie Info Synopsis In New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for Hollywood, Calif.
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- Crime, Drama
Synopsis. Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour begins in a diner somewhere in the middle of nowhere as Al Roberts (Tom Neal) ruminates in voice over about his life and what has lead him to this place in time. He's got a tale to tell and there's a reason because it has taught Al something about fate.
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