Fri 23 May 2025
DETOUR. PRC, 1946. Tom Neal, Ann Savage , Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan. Screenplay by Martin Goldsmith, based on his own novel. Director: Edgar Ulmer.
Fate laughs at a nightclub pianist, hitch-hiking to Los Angeles to see his girl friend. The man who picks him up dies in a strange accident, and when he takes the other man’s money and identity, the events that follow are unstoppable.
Ann Savage plays the girl that Neal picks up in turn, and she knows he is not who he says he is.Neal is under her constant thumb from then on – willingly or not, we are not quite sure. A low budget film that makes a much larger impact than you might expect.
— Reprinted from Movie.File.1, March 1988.
May 24th, 2025 at 12:14 am
A film so grim it becomes almost surreal.
May 24th, 2025 at 3:42 am
It’s a given in the Movies that assuming someone else’s identity never works out pleasantly.
May 25th, 2025 at 8:23 pm
You guys have this one tagged perfectly.
May 26th, 2025 at 1:42 pm
And in reprinting/transcribing the credits, you or someone inadvertently drops “Ann” from Savage’s credit, a credit to the film’s effect?
May 26th, 2025 at 2:11 pm
Yowps! Twas me, Todd. Glad you spotted that. Fixed now. Thanks!