Detour

• Drama
• Thriller
• #black and white
• #crime
• #dark
• #film noir
• #tense

A nightclub pianist hitchhiking to Los Angeles falls into a nightmare of chance, death and blackmail in this lean, fatalistic film noir.

Director:

Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast:

Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake

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  Edgar G. Ulmer

  Edgar Georg Ulmer was an Austrian film director who worked mainly in Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios. His stylish and eccentric works came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement. Ulmer's most famous productions include the horror film The Black Cat (1934) and the film noir Detour (1945).

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  Tom Neal

  Thomas Carroll Neal Jr. was an American actor and amateur boxer. Between 1932 and 1934, he was an amateur boxer who fought in many fights. As an actor, he was best known for his starring role in the critically lauded film Detour and for having a widely publicized affair with actress Barbara Payton. In 1965, his wife was found shot dead, and he was later convicted and imprisoned for involuntary manslaughter. After release, he died in 1972 of heart failure.

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  Ann Savage

  Ann Savage was an American film and television actress. She is best remembered as the greedy cigarette-puffing femme fatale in the critically acclaimed film noir Detour (1945). She was featured in more than 20 B movies between 1943 and 1946.

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  Claudia Drake

  Claudia Drake was an American actress and singer.