Detour

1945

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 98% · 42 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 22499 22.5K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Edgar G. Ulmer Photo
Edgar G. Ulmer

Top cast

Ann Savage Photo
Ann Savage as Vera
Pat Gleason Photo
Pat Gleason as Joe
Eddie Hall Photo
Eddie Hall as Tony - Used-Car Lot Mechanic Inspecting Car
Bess Flowers Photo
Bess Flowers as Connie - Tony's Wife
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565.93 MB
988*720
English 2.0
Passed
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 3
1.08 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
Passed
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by talisencrw 9 / 10

This was excellent. One of my very favourite

This was excellent. One of my very favourite film noirs--and at a fraction of the budget. It made me instantly want to see ALL of Ulmer's films--as well as a lot more of Ann Savage. A priceless find for the adventurous cinephile.
Reviewed by John Chard 9 / 10

Sleazy Nightmare! Playing out as some kind of

Sleazy Nightmare! Playing out as some kind of fate accompanied nightmare, Detour demands repeat viewings since the running time is so short it leaves you hankering for more come the end. We follow the protagonist Al Roberts on the road, and watch (with accompanied narration) a sequence of events that see him in the middle of nowhere at a diner fearing for his future. Devilishly dark in tone, the film relies on a fine underplayed performance from Tom Neal as Roberts, and a gloriously annoying harpy femme fatale turn from Ann Savage as Vera. The film was made for next to nothing in only one week, and the whole film screams out as a low budget movie shot with a sleazy tint and less than stellar tech credits. Yet money can't buy this type of atmospheric misery, where the vagaries of fate play their brutal film noir hands. Upon release, it was just a poverty row "B" picture, and it passed by almost quietly. Unsurprisingly a few years later "French" cineastes picked up on it and as the years rolled by it has garnered critical reappraisals. So much so the likes of Scorsese and The Coen Brothers cottoned on and gleefully let the influence wash over them. Director was one Edgar G. Ulmer ("The Black Cat", "Bluebeard", "Strange Illusion", "Ruthless"), and here he shows himself the master of low budgetary nous and devilish story telling. 9/10
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 5 / 10

I think that in order to get anything

I think that in order to get anything from this film noir, you have to accept from the outset that the acting is pretty poor. An implausibly weak Tom Neal, a downright irritating Ann Savage & an especially wooden Claudia Drake make this something you might win a perseverance award for, for sticking with. Tom Neal is driving across the USA when he makes a decision he soon regrets - picking up a rude, gobby woman (Ann Savage) on the highway who proceeds to rob, bully & blackmail him. Accidentally, she comes a cropper and (aside from a general feeling of thank the Lord from the audience) his relief is palpable. The route to his predicament is relayed via his somewhat pathetic retrospective narrative and her relentless onslaughts and they both combine to really grate after a while (say 20 minutes). It has little to redeem it, I'm afraid - neither the photography nor the script inject much pace and/or menace - it's just a tiresome tirade.
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