Review of Detour

Detour (1945)
7/10
Wonderful Film Noir
9 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
From the writer of the classic film noir -The Narrow Margin- is another noir that is good too. It is amazing how years after their release these noirs are getting more recognition than when they were released. This one is no exception.

The first scene is a man in a diner getting upset by the song playing on the juke box. Then we go into a flashback of how he got there.

A piano player man is in love with a torch light noir blonde singer he works with. The blonde insists she has to leave to go to California to follow her dreams, rather than staying with the man she claims she is in love with. So her man stays in New Jersey, and she goes west. Then he misses her and calls her and tlls her he is headed out to see her.

The road on the way has some major detours. Death seems to be following this man who is in love on the whole trip, coming up with 2 dead bodies on the way to the reunion. The 2 dead bodies detour his entire life.
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