Review of Detour

Detour (1945)
7/10
Exciting noir movie drama skillfully narrated
14 June 2006
The film concerns upon a drifter(Tom Neal) ,he wants gather together his girlfriend and with no money converts as hitchhiker .He's picked up by a strange driver and terrible events happen.Afterwards he offers a lift to ruthless femme fatal(Anne Savage),being accompanied for her the evil spark was struck and a raging torrents of emotion throw up that he can't control.

This unusual picture is a screen's great masterpiece economically directed and plenty of mystery,thrill-loaded and matchless suspense.Awesome movie sometimes ironic and experimental with thoughtful plot thus the starring with off-voice is guided for passivity and gets involved in dark fatalism.It's a tough,terrific adventure in grand larceny that gets him deep in the roads and deeper in danger with a beguiling and tempestuous Anne Savage on the trail on a fortune in hot money.Classic B noir film without budget and unknown actors .Hollywood only gave to excellent director Edgar G.Ulmer for making ¨quickies¨ but he directed two magnificent noir films and competently constructed ,this one,and ¨Strange illusion¨(Story of a how a boy revealed the clue that led to solution of murder of his father exposing the infamy of the man worshipped by women who proved to be a monster of cruelty). This low budget tale is considered a cult movie and has been remade numerous times,even with starring's son,Tom Neal Jr(1992). The motion picture will like to classic moviegoers.
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