Detour, PRC Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play and original story, Martin Goldsmith ; produced by Leon Fromkess ; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
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Label
Detour, PRC Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play and original story, Martin Goldsmith ; produced by Leon Fromkess ; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Detour
Oclc number
1084287797
Responsibility statement
PRC Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play and original story, Martin Goldsmith ; produced by Leon Fromkess ; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Runtime
69
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 966
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
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Savage, Ann, 1921-2008
- Producers' Releasing Corporation
- Erdody, Leo, 1888-1949
- Kline, Benjamin, 1894-1974
- Drake, Claudia
- Ryan, Tim, 1899-1956
- Fromkess, Leon
- Goldsmith, Martin M., 1913-1994
- Ulmer, Edgar G., Edgar George, 1904-1972
- McGuire, George
- Howard, Esther, 1892-1965
- Neal, Tom, 1914-1972
- MacDonald, Edmund
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Gleason, Pat, 1904-1993
Subject
- Jazz musicians -- United States -- Drama
- Drama
- Jazz musicians
- Extortion
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Man-woman relationships
- False personation -- Drama
- Feature films
- Hitchhiking -- United States -- Drama
- Hitchhiking
- Fiction films
- United States
- Film noir
- False personation
- Extortion -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Drama
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- Savage, Ann, 1921-2008
- Producers' Releasing Corporation
- Erdody, Leo, 1888-1949
- Kline, Benjamin, 1894-1974
- Drake, Claudia
- Ryan, Tim, 1899-1956
- Fromkess, Leon
- Goldsmith, Martin M., 1913-1994
- Ulmer, Edgar G., Edgar George, 1904-1972
- McGuire, George
- Howard, Esther, 1892-1965
- Neal, Tom, 1914-1972
- MacDonald, Edmund
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Gleason, Pat, 1904-1993
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- Subject16
- Jazz musicians -- United States -- Drama
- Drama
- Jazz musicians
- Extortion
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Man-woman relationships
- False personation -- Drama
- Feature films
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- Fiction films
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- Film noir
- False personation
- Extortion -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Drama
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