| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes) : .flv file, sound, black and white |
| Summary |
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 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. *"It lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it." - Roger Ebert, **Chicago Sun-Times*** |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1945 |
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This version produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) |
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Based upon the novel Detour : an extraordinary tale, by Martin Goldsmith |
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"Detour (1945) was restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive and the Film Foundation in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, the Museum of Modern Art, Cinémathèque Française"--opening stillframe |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Benjamin H. Kline ; editor, George McGuire ; art director, Edward C. Jewell ; music, Erdody |
| Cast |
Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason |
| Notes |
In English. Closed-captioned |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Drama
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Hitchhiking -- United States -- Drama
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Jazz musicians -- United States -- Drama
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False personation -- Drama
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Extortion -- Drama
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Hitchhiking.
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Jazz musicians.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Extortion.
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False personation.
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United States.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fiction films.
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Film adaptations.
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Film noir.
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Film noir.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Films noirs.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Films de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972, film director.
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Fromkess, Leon, film producer.
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Goldsmith, Martin M., 1913-1994, screenwriter.
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Kline, Benjamin, 1894-1974, director of photography.
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Erdody, Leo, 1888-1949, composer (expression)
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McGuire, George, editor of moving image work.
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Jewell, Edward C., art director.
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Neal, Tom, 1914-1972, actor.
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Savage, Ann, 1921-2008, actor.
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Drake, Claudia, actor.
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MacDonald, Edmund, actor.
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Ryan, Tim, 1899-1956, actor.
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Howard, Esther, 1892-1965, actor.
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Gleason, Pat, 1904-1993, actor.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Goldsmith, Martin M., 1913-1994.
Detour
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Producers' Releasing Corporation, presenter, production company.
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Janus Films.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Kanopy (Firm)
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