Detour (1945) [Film Noir] [Drama]

If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: goo.gl/0qDmXe | Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country. In Arizona, bookie Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald) gives him a ride in his convertible. Haskell has Al pass him pills several times along the way. That night, Al is driving while Haskell sleeps, when a rainstorm forces Al to pull over to put up the top. Unable to rouse Haskell, Al opens the passenger-side door. Haskell falls out and strikes his head on the ground. Al then realizes the bookie is dead. Fearful that the police will believe he killed Haskell, Al dumps the body off the side of the road, takes Haskell's money, clothes and identification, then drives away. After spending the night in a motel, Al picks up another hitchhiker, Vera (Ann Savage), at a gas station. By sheer bad luck, it turns out that the femme fatale had also been picked up by Haskell earlier. She scratched him deeply in the arm and got out after he tried to become too friendly. When Al identifies himself as Haskell, she blackmails him by threatening to turn him in.
In Hollywood, they rent an apartment, posing as Mr. and Mrs. Haskell to provide an address when they go to sell the car. However, Vera learns from a newspaper that Haskell's wealthy father is near death and looking for his son, who ran away as a youth after accidentally injuring his friend. Vera demands that Al impersonate Haskell, but Al balks at this notion, pointing out that he knows nothing about the dead man. Back in the apartment, Vera gets drunk, and they begin arguing. She threatens to call the police, running into the bedroom with the telephone and locking the door. She falls into a stupor on the bed, with the telephone cord tangled around her neck. Al tries to break the cord. Then, when he breaks down the door, he sees that he has accidentally strangled her. He goes hitchhiking again, but is picked up by the police.
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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Leon Fromkess, written by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney, starring 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 and Don Brodie as the Used Car Salesman.
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Source: "Detour" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 January 2013. Web. 07 April 2013. en.wikipedia.or....
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[@randyacuna3248]

saphiffer talbert can't ever go wrong with either bette or joan . To be fair so many great actresses but, they are the head of the class in my view.

[@steveweinstein3222]

In the future, when people talk about the quintessential film noir, it'll be this film. This is noir stripped away of everything but the essential elements, presented as starkly as possible. A true masterpiece.

[@tantamount4341]

Steve.....true

[@ututura]

to the point

[@photohum]

Love this film!

[@davidpirkola1547]

I love this superb film also. My pinnacle of film noir is THE BIG SLEEP, but I respect yours.

[@thankthelord4536]

@@davidpirkola1547 mine is the Postman always ring twice.

[@wewhofly]

I didn't expect it. When Ann Savage gets in the car and broods for a while. Yeah, a quality twist when it came. I wasn't expecting such energy and bite in the dialogue she dishes. The film itself is okay. Suffers in the end from a budget demanding a rushed ending. But yes, Ann Savage's Vera is worth the watch. One of the most unique femme fatale portraits. They usually try to disguise the beast. This one can't control it..

[@dennisgallagher]

The ending was demanded by the Breen Committee regulating morality in films at the time (although surely rushed as well.)

[@lacyjags9594]

The purest film noir in cinema history. This movie represents the beating heart of noir, which if you put in a pot and boiled it down to it's essence, you would be left with Detour. A masterpiece, pure and simple.

[@stebunn]

So true!

[@jenisbetzke6228]

Have you seen a second movie in your life?

[@shea5702]

I love how you phrased that.

[@tantamount4341]

Lacy..... totally agree

[@tantamount4341]

@@jenisbetzke6228 I've seen hundreds of films on two continents and this little gem still stands out

[@Yahootie]

"That's life; whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you".

[@tonytafoya6217]

Is this yours?

[@machfiver753]

So you do the right thing and leave his naked ass body 20ft from the road. Don't worry termata mommas going to school you good heres some perffume for when you reach the arizona state pen. What in the ever fucking fuck 1950's I believed granny when she said the 50's were idyllic and how things only went to shit recently. Apparently besides being crazy fucked up they had the best slang I've ever heard in my life its like listening to someone speak another language and learn wtf they're saying to each other including the subtleties and I prolly have a fair bit of it wrong. I an so happy to have found this im def going to have to watch it again.

[@thebuschamashow]

@@tonytafoya6217 It's in the movie .36.5. Martin Goldsmith

[@stephaniehudson2883]

Noir in a nutshell

[@billshelly4200]

I remember reading about the myth and legend about "Detour"; the miniscule budget, the minimal number of sets, etc. 30 plus years ago. After seeing it, and countless other noirs over the years, I still hunger for more. Thanks for the great post.

[@larissadoyle7427]

DITTO!

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[@machfiver753]

The big sleep us my favorite movie. I don't mind if you don't like my manners I don't much like them myself I grieve over them on long winter evenings. I don't mind you ritzing me or you drinking your lunch out of a bottle .... Is indelibly etched into my mind I haven't heard that scene for a few years but could write it out without even pausing to think

[@machfiver753]

@@zabglobalcinema4010 ok give me a link and I'll look into it's legitimacy and will go from there.

[@jayhockley8841]

As a Musician and former long Distance Hitchhiker , I can really relate to this Movie . Traveling the Road , alone , makes You vulnerable to some crazy stuff .

[@peterzang]

Remind me never to pick you up

[@jayhockley8841]

@@peterzang Consider Yourself Reminded because Its the Ones that gave Me a ride that were the 🤪 Crazy ones .

[@coelhocointech9841]

This is probably one of the best female performances I’ve ever seen. What an amazing actress

[@seanconlon2408]

I was fortunate to see Ann Savage introduce this film at a screening in the early 2000's. She said playing Vera had been easy because she LOATHED Tom Neal

[@WCaron23001]

Lol, she is great in this film. How cool you got to see her.

[@jefferygoodman9928]

@Sean Conlon: Did she go into any more detail on why?

[@seanconlon2408]

@@jefferygoodman9928 She thought he was boorish and conceited. She also said that she left Columbia at the end of her contract in part so that she wouldn't have to work with Neal anymore. When PRC cast Neal for Detour, she was not happy. But it probably fueled her greatest screen performance.

[@polara01]

@@seanconlon2408 great insight! Fascinating situation sort of a mixed blessing I guess for her... she probably had a thing for him and maybe he just rejected her and she never got over it. Otherwise why would she talk like that about him that sounds just like somebody who was basically rejected which is really sad if that is the case or was the case. I'm now more interested in the backstory than than the actual movie LOL thanks again, Bob M.

[@seanconlon2408]

@@polara01 I doubt there was any attraction there at all. She was just sick and tired of the guy after working on 3 pictures with him (Detour was their fourth.) Given Neal's later history, it seems he was not the nicest guy.

[@misterbojangles6205]

A conscious, living, nightmare. This was some kind of writer. Compare this to the garbage plots that are concocted these days. Bravo!

[@darrellphilip3295]

This film gets better with every viewing. It is a hidden treasure.

[@mhlee9348]

"Yeah, fate or some mysterious force can put the the finger on you or me for no good reason at all." What a closing line!

[@jensmuell]

+M H Lee Yeah, and what an eerie foretelling of Neal's own fate...

[@sheilamacdougal9948]

The plot takes off from an implausible premise. He could have just driven to the next truck stop, called the police, and related what happened. He wouldn't be suspected of robbery if he refrained from taking the guy's money. So there would be no motive, and the guy had a health condition. Then he offers a hitchhiker a ride while driving a dead man's car he had stolen? At the very least that would be asking for trouble.

[@sheilamacdougal9948]

To fully appreciate the acting brilliance of Ann Savage, search interviews with her, where she reveals herself to be a remarkably sweet, sophisticated, charming person in real life. Her last scene is especially well-played. She is drunk, but the drunkeness brings out her vicious vindictive nature even more.

[@carolecarle7921]

Found an interview...thanks for the prompt Sheila Macdougal! kzbin.info?search_query=interview+with+actress+anne+savage

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

The most searing, no-holds-barred film fatale of all time!

[@michaelstearnes1526]

​@@Jimmy1982PlaylistsShe reminds me of a couple of blind dates that I've been on.

[@gordonely3591]

Ho ho ho 😂​@@michaelstearnes1526

[@anitarichmond8930]

I love this flick, Vera was one of the most hard-boiled dames you'd ever have the misfortune of running into 🍿

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

TELL ME ABOUT IT.

[@zxtenn]

She looked hot after a warm bath and some nice clothes but I agree he should have never offered her a ride, poor guy had the worst luck

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[@machfiver753]

She's Savage sin city would shit its pants if she showed up.

[@tacticalsweater5119]

@@zxtenn she needed a good ride but not the kind he gave her.😂

[@ellingtonhilligas]

Ann Savage might be the best thing in this movie. I can almost taste her rage as it oozes out.

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

DON'T WANT TO TASTE THAT. VERA WAS VERY HARD CORE.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

autumn t. allgood Why were you SHOUTING, autumn? 🙉

[@subelildirty491]

@@EYE_GOTCHA 🤣🤣

[@_Peremalfait]

It happened for "no good reason at all," except that he dragged the guy's body into a ditch, took his wallet and his car and pretended to be him. In the voice over, Al tries very hard to justify his actions. After all, what choice did he have in the matter? But the excuses fall flat. For me that is film noir: not that it happened for no good reason, but because an otherwise honest guy crossed a line that there was no turning back from.

[@christianelder4983]

Peremalfait Too bad he didn't find a Gideon's Bible in that motel room, then he might have discovered the best way out of that mess.

[@tylerjamesr1]

Lol right. He blamed “fate” and pretended he was just a victim of bad luck but we see through his nonsense. His series of choices one after another led to his downfall.

[@luisfelipesauvalle5807]

He could have driven the dead man's car up to California, and pretend he didn't find out the dude was dead. In regards with the post-mortem hit in the head, he could have come out with some bulshit excuse, it was post-mortem after all

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@luisfelipesauvalle5807 The man was dead when he was hit in the head so there was no blood flowing around his body so there would not be a bruise or blood flowing from an open wound. In a post mortem they would detect that the blow had occurred after the mans death. So if he played it straight and went to the hospital or a doctor he probably would have been cleared of any blame, but then we wouldn't have had this movie.

[@golds04]

Or call Car-shield- they fix broken stuff in s jiffy!

[@ungertron]

Tom Neal looks like Kurt Russell at times. Using skepticism & reason, you can be innocent even when, beyond a reasonable doubt you are judged guilty. Good movie thanks for posting it.

[@roshansubah2646]

old days when movies based on great writer's stories.

[@tantamount4341]

And a great song

[@angelabarrineau640]

Jimmy rock blah blah

[@taylorj6177]

Phenomenal story. That's what it's all about...

[@jackstraw262]

Back when life was about killing time between newspaper editions by playing cards.

[@lemonmazter7831]

It’s nice to be nostalgic but we often take for granted what our elders had to endure.

[@michaelkulman7095]

They should have bought a radio.

[@happilyretired]

Very well said.

[@TheMockatiel]

@@lemonmazter7831THIS.

[@james5460]

He walks by a sign that says "Danger" right before the conclusion. This film is pure gold.

[@johnpharms8943]

I'm 67 years old and I do not remember ever watching this movie. GREAT MOVIE!!!!!

[@michaelwilliams1747]

I'm 67 too. Haven't seen it before either. I'm waiting to see what the fuss was all about.

[@danny-li6io]

I’m 48 and I hope both you guys are doing well.😊

[@blex5579]

i have one word for you: CERN.

[@luciusvanini4759]

Had never heard of it, and fancy myself a cinema buff!

[@fernandostefens5893]

Assisti pela primeira vez, há 10 anos. Assisti várias vezes desde então... Delicioso filme!

[@fuzzyburnette7161]

This proves you don't needa billion dollar budget & superstars tomakea good flick. Goodscript, direction & solid actors are more important. Classic filmnoir.

[@yvetteperkins2513]

Right!!!👍

[@johnfrank2114]

Back then those actors were getting about $4000 a week! That even good money today. I wish I was making that much now!

[@daisywomack7587]

@A Tangerine Predictable but only in the sense whatever decisions the chacacters made could never turn out for their good...that's film noir--the one plus of having time on my hands--watching these great old films

[@RoddyTullenz]

Tomakea? Sounds like a dried up lake.

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[@thefetede]

37:00 this banter is as sweet as any in any movie anywhere or anytime. "what did u do kiss him with a wrench"

[@badbabybear1]

A dark and pessimistic movie about a down-on-his-luck everyman caught up in a twisted tale of murder and dangerous romance. I love the sexually charged banter and moody lighting. A great film noir.

[@jenisbetzke6228]

Hey there, watch "the scar" and "the lady in the window", you'll love them then.

[@johnfrank2114]

@49jubilee Yeah give them hell buddy!

[@tonytafoya6217]

NOIR!

[@sylviadavila4904]

Dialogue like this is what's missing in today's films. If only they'd focus on their scripts instead of special effects.

[@rogerscottcathey]

The hands close ups at the piano were those of the films composer Leo Erdödy. He was playing a Brahms piece. I cant find out who played all the boogy woogy improvisations. Those bad ass rolling bass lines were hot.

[@barneyronnie]

Thank you - I was wondering about that.

[@lcopywriter5102]

The chaotic life of Tom Neal, his insane affair with the tragic and beautiful film noir star Barbara Payton; his near-fatal fistfight with Franchot Tone are even more riveting than the film. Unbelievable how life imitates art.

[@bettymiller1929]

Not to mention that he did kill his wife Gale

[@denisenoe7746]

Yes, life tripped him and he fell -- hard.

[@denisenoe3702]

I wrote an essay on "Detour" that was published.

[@darrellphilip3295]

It was dull until Vera came on -- then it caught fire! Ann Savage is awesome! What a character!

[@TheSpiralnotebook]

razor blade eyes,

[@victorvelasquez1482]

Just finished seeing it for the first time, a true masterpiece that'll live on forever, I really didn't know if was more blown away by Ann Savage's classic beauty or her cutting and vicious performance.

[@MrKelo29]

This film has its moments, the tacked on ending was to satisfy the Hayes office. No murderer could go unpunished. Still, with the snappy dialogue and a femme-fatale from hell, who dies in an almost three stooges sorta way, I liked it. Ann Savage kills it as the fast talking Lil' hustler Vera.

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

THAT SHE WAS.

[@luciusvanini4759]

NO: the Hays (actual spelling) Ofce. ending didn't reduce DETOUR's Noir greatness at all, because, remember, he was NOT a murderer.

[@roberthill799]

Nevertheless, the Hays Office was a horrible and repressive group of uptight, self-righteous Jesus freaks who stained our film history and made movies much less interesting than they could have been.

[@scotgat]

4:06 The texture on the coffee cup, the chiaroscuro; fantastic!

[@denisenoe7927]

Clarification: In those days, driver's licenses did not have photos.

[@LANED123]

"Hey glamorous. Give me change for a dime, will ya?"

[@kaptainwarp]

"and run interference for your girl on the dance floor" WHAT A MAGNIFICENT LINE!

[@dougcase7545]

Wow, Ann Savage is a savage in this role. That Vera is one scary character.

[@MrShobar]

James Ellroy once said that film noir means, almost by definition, "...that you're eff'd." . He must have said that after viewing this film. A great little gem. Many thanks.

[@marywilliams9858]

MrShobar Don't underst

[@marywilliams9858]

MrShobar Don't understand.

[@steplumpkin5432]

THANKS UPLOADER!!!!!!!!!

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@marywilliams9858 "...that you're f**ked."

[@katiezee2]

that guy needed change for a dime to play the jukebox...how things have changed...

[@TomLongusa]

The purchasing power of our dollar has dropped around 97% since around 1916-17...so it isn't that everything has just become more expensive. It's actually that our dollar now buys so much less.

[@mp01juve]

Now hed just stream the song from Spotify.

[@sranney1]

No jutebox

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

YES INDEED.

[@taylorj6177]

@@TomLongusa Precisely. Nonetheless, he said a jukebox buy was a Nickel... Which, comparatively speaking, is still pretty steep for back then!! I'd say close to maybe a couple bucks at least today??

[@walterzoomie]

The moral of the story is this: Don't be yellah. Don't be a sap. Don't get sore. Don't squeal.

[@johnwilliams8918]

And you're no gentleman see? And you're not gonna beat it till tell you you can

[@fredsalfa]

One of the Best Movies of All Time

[@wbbils7052]

Ended like a grade school story. Johnny woke up and it was all a bad dream. What a pantload of an ending. In real life L.A. of 1945, the guy runs the car over a cliff on Mulholland Drive, hitchhikes back into town, calls up his sweetie with a pocketful of cash and disappears into the city to join the Musicians Union and tinkle the ivories for some big band..

[@emjayay]

Maybe gets jobs playing music for film soundtracks.

[@wbbils7052]

@@emjayay To quote John Wayne in "The Alamo": "It do look likely."

[@rickbrowning7059]

Proves one thing you don't need million dollar budgets when you have a fabulous writer who isn't afraid to tell it like it was. The greatest generation came back from the horrors of world war2. They wanted to watch a film that didn't sugar coat. The writer knew that and acted accordingly.

[@lynnpurcell7583]

I liked Vera. She was the perfect 1950's female character. Very good movie. Thanks for posting it.

[@jenisbetzke6228]

yeah, she was quite ahead of her times...

[@OlymPigs2010]

Cop is driving a motorcycle on a highway...in a rainstorm..and he's not wearing any rain gear or any kind of goggles or even glasses...and he's telling the guy..."that's how accidents happen"!

[@paulwilson8061]

OlymPigs2010 and also he kept his motorcycle in the middle of the road

[@raymondsaquet2922]

My imagination or is all the traffic keeping LEFT? They reverse the film at the lab?@Ice Surfer

[@eddieboggs8306]

@@raymondsaquet2922 Yeah I wondered about that too. Great movie just the same.

[@RSEFX]

@@raymondsaquet2922 They had to flop the film (switch left for right) in a few shots to help with the continuity (ie to maintain the right-to-left flow of the car "heading west"). It wasn't absolutely necessary, story-wise, but keeping that direction consistent made for a better visual flow

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

HE GOT CAUGHT IN THE RAIN LIKE ROBERTS DID. PLAIN & SIMPLE.

[@albertadriftwood3612]

So there's Robert, driving a stolen car wearing a dead man's clothes, oh look, a crazy lady...hop in, where ya going? Good Lord.

[@Romans8-9]

And same lady just happened to have been picked up and dropped off by the dead man on the same journey and arrives where she is ahead of Al.

[@saathoff1220]

😂😂😂 true

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

I KNEW THE MOMENT I SAW THAT WOMAN STANDIND A FEW FEET FROM THE GAS STATION, THAT WAS THE WOMAN HASKELL PUT OUT OF HIS CAR. I WAS YELLING DON'T PICK HER UP. I WAS WAITING FOR HER TO SPRING ON HIM WITH A BOAT LOAD OF QUESTIONS. BOY DID SHE. AND HE WAS SHOCKED TO THE QUICK. NEVER PICK UP HITCH HIKERS. BUT HE INVITED HER.

[@emjayay]

@@Romans8-9 Hey, shit happens.

[@antidotenyhc6562]

Tom Neals real life story is more bizarre than any film noir scriptwriter could've ever conceived.

[@cristabelle1207]

and Barbara Payton's was even worse than Neal's... I think Babs and Scotty Beckett were the two most tragic male and female figures that ever came out of H-wood

[@Denisenoe]

Have you read John O'Dowd's "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story"?

[@katiezee2]

yeah he hooked up with that trainwreck Barbara Payton,.. and so did Franchot Tone.. Tom Neal practically beat him to death in a drunken brawl over Barbara.. yikes

[@carlosayon2519]

@@katiezee2 yup

[@TRINZINI]

Who the hell gives a total stranger a ride in a car he just STOLE !! "Poor guy" deserved his bad luck ...

[@StevenTorrey]

The Underground Man goes to Las Vegas! What a story! Anne Savage (as Vera) pays the role to a tee--with a certain savageness! Really a great flick!

[@jenisbetzke6228]

Las Vegas? Where do you come from?

[@michaelmakinney20]

Las Vegas didn’t even exist at the time 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@thraciangrapes]

I would have loved to live during this era. I would have had a farm, married to a farmer in the Midwest, preferred Norwegian, and raised 10 children and lots of animals.

[@sunshineandwarmth]

What? No malls?😢😢😢

[@TommyChardonneret]

WOW! What a convertible! Is that a Lincoln? Seems like all trademark traces have been removed for the film's on-the-cheap producers, but that's one fine classic old auto indeed! And what a handsome guy, that Tom Neal! Man alive, after a google search, it seems that his previous-to-acting stint as a boxer plagued him Mike Tyson style, with him eventually being arrested for assault and battery and then later being convicted of manslaughter! Geez, some people just don't know how good their future will be and do all they can to self-destruct. Really sad that he died of an apparent heart attack at only age 58, and as an ex-con gardener in Palm Springs. Hollywood has a million sad stories of lives all too short lived.

[@billding7073]

"46 Lincoln Continental. Probably Pace Car Yellow code 14146. One of the most popular colors for that model.

[@TommyChardonneret]

bill ding Thanks so much for the details about that Lincoln. What a way to celebrate the USA helping to end World War Two! Well, not all war everywhere at the time, as world history well knows, but geez what a car nonetheless!

[@madacyb5285]

Actually that is a 1941 Lincoln Continental, you can distinguish by the grill..........this movie came out in 1945, no new civilian cars were built since early '42 because of the war effort, and the 1946 models were still to be released, pretty much just warmed over pre-war models....the '46 looks about the same as a '41 with just grill and tail light changes.........

[@franm.k.5832]

Based on Detour the 1939 novel by Martin M. Goldsmith....I love movies based on books.....purr

[@eddieboggs8306]

Saw this one night about 11:30 on TV. Later found and bought it on video. It's like the snowball effect. Gets steadily worse as it goes on. Another good one is, Scarlett Street , with Edward G. Robinson. Loved both of these movies. One of a kind not same ole figure it out befor it's half over.

[@ryanpeterson8668]

Totally agree..was checking Scarlett Street today

[@denisenoe7927]

Tom Neal's life took more than one tragic "detour." To learn more, read "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story" by John O'Dowd. Barbara was part of the reason Neal's film career crashed.

[@larryrobertson2150]

Life imitating art or vice versa maybe.

[@gordonely3591]

@@denisenoe7927 Barbara Payton was only 39 when she died . Alcoholism is a bitch . Addiction to Nicotine is just as bad 😨

[@jimblue39]

Poor guy has worst luck than me! Thank you for uploading these movies, I love Noir flicks.

[@larryrobertson2150]

That and a couple of wrong decisions.

[@michaelmakinney20]

@@larryrobertson2150 ya think? 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@carlalewis2149]

I love how he pronounces Miami Miama lol

[@machfiver753]

I believe that pronouncing it like that will get you an easy 10 stretch up state.

[@themirrorsofmymind]

This guy sounds like my mother. They both speak English up to a certain point... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@dianablue565]

There are some great old movies on youtube.

[@billybob9961]

Diana Blue yes there is

[@MarkBaconwriter]

And this isn't one of them.

[@jenisbetzke6228]

unlike this one.

[@michaelvitale4029]

Diana Blue yes there are. Been watching Sherlock Holmes movies. There’s just something nostalgicly cool about b&w movies

[@wbbils7052]

Diana Blue. Yes, but there are also a LOT of stinkers.

[@joemonteleonezollo4967]

A Savage feme fatale performance by Ann . She was magnificent . Tom Neal was extremely believable. At the end when the police gave him a lift. What a touch . The fact he got away with it made the movie. Had me from beginning to end. Great movie 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿!

[@Kevin-pw7so]

"How Far you goin?" Her: "How far you goin?" That took me by surprise

[@michaelmakinney20]

Yea- pun intended ✨

[@sonofliberty6915]

You know a movie is good when it brings serenity...

[@sunshineandwarmth]

Love that guy's voice and the general sound of these films.

[@Patrick3183]

i like how ppl talked shit to each other then and everyone took it and didn't get upset or overreact.

[@emjayay]

Well, in film noir movies.

[@JohnPMitten]

Don't swear

[@zabglobalcinema4010]

!'^+%&/()=?_?=)(/&%+^'You are invited to our film company. We broadcast subtitles for our movies in most languages. It doesn't matter what language you know. You are invited to our film company. We broadcast subtitles for our movies in most languages. It doesn't matter what language you know. You are invited to our film company. We broadcast subtitles for our movies in most languages. It doesn't matter what language you know. !'^+%&/()=?=)(/&%+^%()=??=)(/&%+^^+%&/()=)(/&%+^'+%/()=?)(/&%+^^

[@machfiver753]

Lol fucking rube doesn't know whats coming do ya rube?

[@johnhulsker9123]

I am such a product of that, Detroit by way of Rotterdam, two hard hitting towns with no use for posers. Last forty years in California, brother, what a bunch of soft sisters,

[@lamanzana22]

This movie is just like I want my coffee: dark and bitter...

[@kiwitrainguy]

Chocolate is good when it's like that too.

[@Rhiaanon]

I love golden age of hollywood flicks..especially fim noir! Thanks for this upload and I have subscribed!

[@darnellplayer743]

"Ok, ok... Don't get sore" -cool colloquium from that day 😂

[@Laura-hb2rt]

Colloquial

[@mikemike8623]

What are you a Mary?

[@Romans8-9]

@@Laura-hb2rt If you really want to get technical, its a colloquialism.

[@Romans8-9]

I agree, should still be used today. Another one I like from that era is "what of it?" and "nothing doing".

[@bobdownes162]

Uncanny how Neal resembles Brando at times. Ann Savage really Sores in this one !

[@tonirose6776]

He looks like Dom DeLouise.

[@bobdownes162]

@@tonirose6776 And Dom de Louise resembles Rod Steiger somewhat.

[@michaelmakinney20]

@@bobdownes162 And Rod looks like Johnny Carson, somewhat 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@james5460]

All sorts of 1940s slang, like in Barbara Stanwyck's "Ball of Fire." Fun to hear those that lasted ("Siamese twins," "remember who's boss") and others that didn't ("kiss him with a wrench," "he was a piece 'a cheese"). Incidentally, one of the best lines in "Detour" is one nobody ever mentions. When Vera is trying - and failing - to seduce the Neal character, she tosses off a brilliantly bitter and truly ageless line that reflected someone's very real and deep understanding of social interaction. 'So what got us off on this subject anyway... We'll be discussing politics next." The third rail of civilized discourse - politics. Talk about taking a sideswipe with a Mack truck.

[@OneMan-wl1wj]

What are the first 2 rails of "civilized discourse" ...anyone?

[@rickbrowning7059]

I've thoroughly enjoy watching detour every year. I love the song that makes him crazy when the trucker asks of change for a dime to play the jukebox. Awww the good old days. With my social security I would have been rich then. Lmao.

[@pauldrake1858]

Thanks, this was a brilliant movie, true to Film Noir.

[@billding7073]

In 1965, Tom Neal was indicted for the involuntary manslaughter of his ex wife. He did six years.

[@billding7073]

Have to agree with you Denise. I've watched this film numerous times over the last 20 years or so, and each time I come away with a slightly altered view. Vera is a unique character in noir in that there is no vulnerability in her except through her avarice and blind greed. Detour was filmed over a two week period for $30,000. After 70 years the viewers have got their money's worth and more.

[@willieluncheonette]

there's some doubt about your comment on the budget. From Wiki--"In 1972, Ulmer said in an interview that the film was shot in six days. However, in a 2004 documentary, Ulmer’s daughter Arianne presented a shooting script title page which noted, "June 14, 1945-June 29. Camera days 14." Moreover, Ann Savage was contracted to PRC for the production of Detour for three six-day weeks, and she later said the film was shot in four six-day weeks, with an additional four days of location work in the desert at Lancaster, California. While popular belief long held that Detour was shot for about $20,000,[ Noah Isenberg, in conducting research for his book on the film, discovered that the film's actual cost was upwards of $100,000.

[@christinalopez6564]

bill ding oh my are you kidding?Whooa

[@johngarbarini8474]

He was also a Harvard Law grad.

[@tantamount4341]

@@johngarbarini8474 an amateur boxer, he floored actor franchot tone.

[@maciek9498]

"Ohhh sure...I know how It's an education and all that. But from now on, I'll take my education in College!" LMAO!!!

[@thebereanexaminer7119]

My first film noir. I don't think there are many left that I haven't seen.

[@leezhukov9119]

One of the best noir films ever.

[@Baskerville22]

If the hitch-hiking gal really believed the Tom Neal character murdered Haskell, she would not behave as she did, threatening him with exposure when he could kill her alone with him on the desert highway.

[@paulbuerton8143]

Saw this on Cheap DVD years ago. I was so intrigued by this style of movie after this. 10/10

[@jameshogan6142]

He would never have got away with impersonating Haskell. He was even getting himself in a jam convincing the salesman that he was the owner of the car through not knowing his insurance details.

[@sunshineandwarmth]

James, yes, Vera might have thought of that if she hadn't been a complete whacko!😂

[@swebb5142]

72 year old movie... I actually remember The Broadway department store on Hollywood & Vine 53:44... Became a giant crack house, and then into a CVS (still open)? From drugs to drugs LOL!!!

[@machfiver753]

If that chick is still alive I believe that I am terrified of a 90 some year old woman.

[@Msladybugslayer]

Great classic, a good lesson too... just be honest and face the music. Also illustrates how every choice and event can change everything

[@tantamount4341]

Good analysis

[@kiwitrainguy]

Correct, we can choose an upward spiral or a downward spiral.

[@leemichaels4540]

Excellent movie -Vera was bitter and hard as nails. I cracked up when she's spits out: you'll be sniffing' that perfume that arizona hands out free to murderers. great acting and script.

[@johng.3740]

+Lee Michaels That was a good line!!

[@jensmuell]

+Lee Michaels Perfume? What about that remark, didn't get this?

[@jensmuell]

thanks!

[@lauriedavis400]

Lee Michaels sèvcx

[@cassandradancelle2337]

@@jensmuell Gas in 1946 Arizona had the death penalty and gas chamber.

[@tonytafoya6217]

... Ever done any hitch hiking? You gotta be smart and tough. You gotta listen to, and obey that angel in your head when he tells you to pass a ride up, or carefully bail out of one your already in. If you don't listen, if you throw caution to the wind, you're gonna live to regret it. If you live at all.

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

"Black luck and trouble is my middle name." Al.

[@jimstokes6742]

That's Artie Shaw's version of I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE LOVE WITH ME that the guy plays in the cafe jukebox in the opening scene.

[@misterbojangles6205]

Wasn't he Ava Gardner's first husband?

[@HerAeolianHarp]

Mister Bojangles Maybe not the first, but they were married.

[@thankthelord4536]

@@misterbojangles6205 no Mickey Rooney was her first. Artie was her second.

[@warrenwilson4818]

The main music after that is the song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," popularized by Harry Carroll, Broadway and pop music composer. (Words by someone else.) Tune is originally from Clssical great F. Chopin.

[@markr.devereux3385]

Of course DETOUR is a prime example of film noir . One of the most deadly femme fatales in all of filmdom. And the hero sees his life go from bad to worse seemingly unable to change his fate. And the narration from a man that now understands his mistakes.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Arguably the greatest fatalist noir.

[@luciusvanini4759]

OUT OF THE PAST great too. Don't know why I'd never heard of this one till today....

[@daisywomack7587]

Love it when someone gets change for a dime:)

[@scotnick59]

Neal was a physically handsome dude but what a tortured life he had!

[@Denisenoe]

When he came of prison, he was in his 50s and looked like he was in his 80s.

[@sharksport01]

Handsome? Yuck! He looks like George Michael.

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

REALLY ?

[@johnbockelie3899]

I would have thought.twice before picking that bitch up.

[@slidejones6033]

Great film. The main character caused two accidents by mistake but his story is unbelievable to anyone if he told it.

[@denisenoe7927]

Wasn't that lady who played the waitress who brings Vera and Al food while they're in the car pretty? Of course it was a bit part but I thought she should have been listed in the credits and she wasn't. Does anyone know who she was?

[@Countess88]

Romance, back then, always took place in the midst of cigarette smoke or fog ! 😂

[@cappsginny699]

Btw, wearing a hat while riding in an open convertible doesn't work - except in movies....

[@fernandoparadacastillo5901]

Great film. Achieves a lot with just a good story, good acting and a modest budget. Ann Savage was especially captivating. Even though it has aged pretty well, i would find it interesting to see a remake

[@cheriamour1762]

Wow! What an actress that Vera was!

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

When Detour entered the public domain, it frequently was syndicated on television channels and released in numerous VHS incarnations. Gaining cult status and garnering critical acclaim as "arguably film noir's greatest low-budget feature", this exposure earned Savage a new, younger following] From the 1980s, Savage also attended a number of film festivals, helping to bolster her personal status and led her to emerge once more as "a glamorous figure-about-Hollywood at film festivals and galas

[@VTMCompany]

This is the best print I've seen of this public domain film.

[@chloeew4627]

The time when they had to string sentences together, facial and body expressions, eyes , actually it’s called acting . 😊

[@lauriedavis400]

... “a beauty that’s almost homely because it’s so _real”_ ... Umm ... *_WHAAAT?!?_* 🤷‍♀️

[@michaelmakinney20]

What’s your number? 😉

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Ann Savage certainly lives up to her name. 😬

[@Michelle-je9jk]

Thanks for uploading classic movies I really appreciate it

[@groba50]

Back in the days when it was against federal regulations to show a movie where someone gets away with a crime; no matter how petty!!!

[@michelleseg1560]

The censors were a private group not government. The industry did this to avoid gov involvement which they feared because of public complaints. So the films were censored to appease complaining people not the gov.

[@dampri3182]

“I knew I had to hit the hay, and hit it hard”

[@goopah]

This film is known for its low budget of $25,000, which is equivalent to $387,225 in 2022. Which today is also a very low number for any film, even independent films. How did he pay for the actors and make--up, much less the cameras, editing, lighting and everything else? Amazing.

[@truestory2990]

It was more around a $100,000 really, the director routinely embellished how fast and cheap he managed to make it. Still, it's pretty impressive for how much money it made back, and what a stellar reputation it received over the years.

[@richardgreiner9264]

Talk about a victim of circumstance ! A good movie.