Fresh
Uniformly good performances and some equally good direction and dialog keep the meller moving.
Variety Staff, Variety
Detour
He went searching for love… but fate forced a DETOUR to revelry… violence… mystery!
1945 · 1h 8m · Passed
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Edgar G. Ulmer
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Edgar G. Ulmer Director
- Tom Neal as Al Roberts
- Ann Savage as Vera
- Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey
- Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr
- Tim Ryan as Nevada Diner Proprietor
- Esther Howard as Holly, Diner Waitress
- Pat Gleason as Joe, Trucker at Diner
- Don Brodie as Used Car Salesman (uncredited)
- Roger Clark as Cop (uncredited)
- Eddie Hall Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of the most daring and thoroughly perverse works of art ever to come out of Hollywood.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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
Fresh
Passion joins with folly to produce termite art par excellence.
Time Out
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