Detour (1945)

This movie is 68 minutes long

Patrick Willems

"The world is full of skeptics” says Tom Neal’s Al Roberts in one of his many bursts of intensely subjective narration walking us through the broad arc of Martin Goldsmith’s 1939 crime pulp novel that sees his financially desperate New York nightclub pianist gradually turn…

Josh Lewis

Deliciously nasty, style on a shoestring. Two idiots just smart enough to be a danger to each other. Distilled rotgut.

Jake Cole

a film for those who've lived years of self-hatred, disappointment, mulling over mistakes, regrets, would-be worlds that never were going to be because you were never going to be in them -- the fool's journey begins with a single step, and the greatest traps are the ones we…

comrade_yui

95 Slimy, putrid, lacking even the slightest bit of nonsense. A firecracker of nihilism and detachment, and *the* film noir.

SilentDawn

There is hardly a more deliciously feral woman in early noir history than Ann Savage in “Detour.”  What starts as a narrative about a hitchhiking pickup gone awry is granted an acidic bile of such toxicity that you couldn’t even try to swallow it down.  As a woman who…

theriverjordan

One of the most intense and fascinating noir films I’ve ever seen. The film distills the essence of the genre with almost feverish urgency as if it were always one step away from total ruin. It’s something that goes far beyond the narrative of bad luck and cruel fate, it’s…

noen

"She was young - not more than 24. Man, she looked like she had been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet in spite of that, I got the impression of beauty. Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you're with your…

Will Sloan

An example of how a short, low-budget, and constrained film can sometimes transform its overall impact for the better. One’s own fate, pure chance. Making choices in the depths of morality and the randomness of despair. This is pure noir. Every conversation, every glance,…

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