Tag: Detour
D

August Film: Detour Analysis

American Cinema
The production of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 film noir classic Detour is as fabled as the picture itself: reportedly shot over anything from two days up to four six-day weeks, on a small budget costing somewhere between $20,000 and $100,000. Ulmer himself, in an interview given in 1972, asserted that the film took six days to shoot. Yet it subsequently spent more than...

August Film: Detour (1945)

American Cinema
JTNDY2VudGVyJTNFJTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZhcmNoaXZlLm9yZyUyRmVtYmVkJTJGRGV0b3VyJTIyJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjIxMDUwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNzAwJTIyJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTIwd2Via2l0YWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTNEJTIydHJ1ZSUyMiUyMG1vemFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbiUzRCUyMnRydWUlMjIlMjBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4lM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0UlM0MlMkZjZW50ZXIlM0U=   Detour 68 minutes | 30 November 1945 | United States 'Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism.' - Spencer Selby Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Producer: Leon Fromkess Screenplay: Martin Goldsmith Based On: Martin Goldsmith's 1939 novel Detour: An Extraordinary Tale Starring: Tom Neal as Al Roberts, Ann Savage as Vera,...