Directed by:
Edgar G. UlmerCinematography:
Benjamin H. KlineComposer:
Leo ErdodyCast:
Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason, Don Brodie, Harry Strang, Eddie HallVOD (2)
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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 when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage’s snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hard-boiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Tom Neal
USA
Best movies:
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Detour (1945)
Air Force (1943)
Ann Savage
USA
Best movies:
Detour (1945)
The More the Merrier (1943)
Fire with Fire (1986)
Claudia Drake
USA
Best movies:
Detour (1945)
Reunion in France (1942)
Edmund MacDonald
USA
Best movies:
Texas (1941)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Detour (1945)
Tim Ryan
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Esther Howard
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Born to Kill (1947)
Pat Gleason
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Detour (1945)
Don Brodie
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Little Big Man (1970)
Harry Strang
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
North by Northwest (1959)
Love Crazy (1941)
Eddie Hall
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Shall We Dance? (1937)