Detour 1945 | Crime/Drama/Film-noir

Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The screenplay was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's 1939 novel of the same title, and released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid-20th-century Hollywood. (imdb)

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[stevennorfolk]

Pure, perfect Noir. After the big 3, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Killers, this right up there.

[Bucketbothead]

I've read where someone stated that Vera "... is the most vicious femme fatale in the world of film noir...", & similar comments. I totally disagree. Vera was kitty-cat vicious, she liked to scratch, all claws no fangs. She was pretty much a loud-mouth drunk, loud-mouth sober too. Did she ever kill anyone? The only near vicious thing she did was merely scratch Haskell's hand. She actually ended up being more downright rotten than she was vicious. Just like Al described her; "... Vera unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before." Considering the manner of her own demise, she was a mindless drunk too.

Many other femme fatales of noir were way more cold-hearted & vicious than Vera & the most vicious, ruthless, greedy double-crossin' femme fatale in noir history just might have been Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) in Jack Bernhard's 1946 film, Decoy. Margot had huge fangs, but she also knew how to ingeniously hide them with her sweet & soft-spoken deceit & manipulation.

Margot would've wiped the floor with Vera. Actually, instead of offering Vera a ride, Margot would've ran her over & then rifled through her hand purse & suitcase after flattening her into the side of the road.

Jayne Meadows as Muriel, aka Mildred Havelend, aka Mrs. Fallbrook in Lady of the Lake was a cold-blooded killer, & Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past too, as well as many other femme fatales of noir.

[agentstanley]

They need to remake this in today's modern world with Waze or Uber or Scoop or some ride-sharing service instead of hitchhiking.

[HYPONOVA_Official]

A-1 CLASSIC satisfaction guaranteed B Noir! "Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you, or me, - for no reason at all." Zowie, with lines like that how can you go wrong?

[Ckom-Tunes]

Top notch fluke! A film that pulls you in. You keep wanting to slap some sense into that guy!

[agentstanley]

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Weird foreshadowing at the start and a unheeded warning from Haskill.

"Has kill", like "has killed Vera". 😳

Also Haskill mentioned he "kicked her to the curb" which is what Al should have done after first meeting Vera.

[EmilyTienne]

What a lame ending. Like they just tacked that on to satisfy the movie code/ censors.

[qualquan]

Depressing.
Anyway to disconnect a land line one pulls the cord from the wall socket, not from the handset as the movie depicts.

[glennschadow-gwqc]

Boy this women never shuts up , ,, ive got a headache 20 minutes in