Detour

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The work Detour represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource Detour

Statement of responsibility: PRC Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play and original story, Martin Goldsmith ; produced by Leon Fromkess ; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

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Summary: "From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run--a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hard-boiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration"--Container

Credits note: Director of photography, Benjamin H. Kline ; editor, George McGuire ; music, Erdody

Language note: English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

PerformerNote: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason

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Context of Detour