Detour
Detour is a 1945 American independent 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. The film, which today is in the public domain and freely available for viewing at various online sources, was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2018. In April that year, the 4K restoration premiered in Los Angeles at the TCM Festival. A Blu-Ray and DVD was released in March 2019 from the Criterion Collection. In 1992, Detour was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Plot
Al Roberts, an unemployed piano player, hitches a ride, arriving at a roadside diner in Reno, Nevada. Another customer in the diner plays a song on the jukebox, that disturbs Al, for it reminds him of his former life in New York City.
More details
author | Martin Mooney |
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director | Edgar G. Ulmer |
editor | George McGuire |
genre | crime drama historical |
keywords | arizona blackmail bookie bookmaker california dead man desert center airport drive fall force gas station heart attack hitch hitchhike id jukebox kill lead singer local newspaper los angeles louisiana nevada new york city roadside diner sale sexual assault strike to force himself on her unemployed want |
musicBy | Leo Erdody |
producer | Leon Fromkess |
productionCompany | PRC Pictures |
publisher | Producers Releasing Corporation |
theme | film noir independent noir road movie |