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Detour
1945
Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble. Read more
| Starring | Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald |
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| Director | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller |
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Detour
Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble.
| Starring | Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Edmund MacDonald |
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| Director | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Studio | SIREN DVD Ltd |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 7 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1945 To Rent: DVD: 01 Jan 2005 |
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A minor cult movie with as much doomladen dialogue and film noir angles as could be shovelled into a Poverty Row 'B' at the time. On the whole, less than meets the eye.
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- Halliwell's Film Guide
- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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Great film noir, lousy DVD transfer
This is a great film noir short with a suspiciously moral ending (probably tacked on by Hollywood). But despite that if you like 1940s Film Noir it's an ... read more »
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- Yorkshire
- 07 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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Urban misery
Very much in the 40s-50s film noir tradition (stark lighting, ever-present stress, comic book dialogue in harsh accents) which happens to be a favoured genre of... read more »
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- Leni
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- 30 Aug 2011 at 12:14
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Poverty row gem
Edgar Ulmer was a first rate to director who fell out with studies and had a long career in the poverty row studios. Shot in a week, Detour clearly is ... read more »
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- Toxfly
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- 06 Jul 2008 at 18:52
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a hitch hikers guide to bad luck
a story is told in flashback to explain why a drifter is as grumpy as he is and so starts the reason for his hitch-hike across the US. He ends up under the ... read more »
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- itstinks
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