1. Detour | Rotten Tomatoes
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In New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for Hollywood, Calif. When Al gets some money, he decides to hitchhike to California to join Sue. In Arizona, Al accepts a ride with Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald), but during a storm in a freak accident, Haskell is killed. Frightened, Al assumes Haskell's identity and car, but soon comes upon the mysterious Vera (Ann Savage), who seems to know all about his true identity.
2. Detour (1946) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
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3. Detour (1945) directed by Edgar G. Ulmer • Reviews, film + cast
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.
4. Detour (1945) Cast and Crew - Cast Photos and Info | Fandango
Tom Neal: Al Roberts; Ann Savage: Vera; Claudia Drake: Sue Harvey; Edmund MacDonald: Charles Haskell Jr; Tim Ryan: Nevada Diner Proprietor ...
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
5. Detour | Film Noir, Thriller, Ulmer - Britannica
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Detour, American low-budget crime drama that was virtually ignored upon its initial release in 1945 but was later championed by film critics and such directors as Martin Scorsese as one of the high points of the film noir genre. Al Roberts (played by Tom Neal) is a hitchhiker who assumes a
6. Detour movie review & film summary (1945) - Roger Ebert
Cast · Tom Neal as Al · Claudia Drake as Sue · Pat Gleason as Joe · Ann Savage as Vera · Donald Brodie as Car salesman · Edmund MacDonald as Haskell ...
"Detour" is a movie so filled with imperfections that it would not earn the director a passing grade in film school. This movie from Hollywood's poverty row,
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7. Detour - AFI|Catalog - American Film Institute
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Al Roberts becomes extremely upset when a customer in the diner where he is having a cup of coffee plays a song that reminds him of his past: In New York, Al, a piano player in a nightclub, is in love with singer Sue Harvey. Al wants to marry Sue, but although she loves him, Sue declares that she intends to seek fame in Hollywood first. Some time later, Al is given a large tip and calls Sue in California. Learning that she is working as a waitress, he impulsively decides to hitchhike west to join her. In Arizona, a man named Charles Haskell offers him a ride to Los Angeles. When Al notices deep scratches on Haskell's hand, Haskell explains that a woman to whom he had given a ride scratched him after he made a sexual advance. That night, while Al is driving, it starts to rain. Al is unable to rouse the sleeping Haskell and stops to raise the top on the convertible. When Al opens the passenger-side door, Haskell falls out and hits his head. Convinced that he will be blamed for Has
8. Detour, 1945 - Heart of Noir
Al Roberts (Tom Neal) recounts his escapade with Vera. After picking her up, Al immediately learns that Vera's (Ann Savage) quite ...
Outside the more established film studios of the time, a small group of resource-strapped studios (Republic, Monogram, Producers Releasing Corporation, and others), collectively nicknamed Poverty Row, produced a steady stream of short-duration genre films with lesser known (or unknown) casts, noticeably bare-bones production values, and minimal marketing. As the paragon of Poverty Row noir, Edgar Ulmer’s Detour holds a special place in the noir canon: economic constraints forced Ulmer to use his wild imagination to craft one of the most tautly effective, perfectly paced thrillers of the cycle, a sort of low-key, 68-minute symphony about two hitchhikers tangling with fate. Goldsmith’s script is replete with bitterly hard-boiled voice-over narration from hitchhiking pianist Al Roberts (Tom Neal, who resembles Brando at certain angles) and icy zingers from Vera (Ann Savage), the conniving, witch-like hitchhiker he picks up after “inheriting” a Lincoln Continental from another driver whom he accidentally killed. Aware of his crime, Vera agrees not to turn in Roberts to the police as long as he follows her orders, which lead to no good (“There ought to be a law against dames with claws”). With a shooting schedule lasting a mere six days (some dispute this), Ulmer created a perfect microcosm of the noir universe: suspicion and world weariness layered on thick, a list of now-standard noir settings (highway, roadside diner, hotel room, nightclub), and budget-driven shortcuts adding v...
9. Detour (1945) Film Synopsis and Discussion - Obscure Hollywood
Vera was performed by Ann Savage (1921-2008), whose real name was Bernice Maxine Lyon. A classic description of the actress is to be found in Ian and ...
Synopsis and discussion of the film Detour, released in 1945 by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), starring Tom Neal and Anne Savage, and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
10. Detour (Film) - TV Tropes
Detour is a 1945 Film Noir directed by Edward G. Ulmer ... He's hitchhiking through Arizona when he's picked up by a man by the name of Charles Haskell.
Detour is a 1945 Film Noir directed by Edward G. Ulmer and starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. Al Roberts (Neal) is a piano player at a rather seedy nightclub in New York City. When his girlfriend Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake) lights out to Hollywood …
11. Detour — Cineaste Magazine
Piano player Al (beta-actor Tom Neal, fresh off the bizarre yellow-face thriller First Yank Into Tokyo [1945]) and his chanteuse girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) ...
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