Detour
1945, Crime/Drama, 1h 9m
41 Reviews 5,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Stylish and gripping, Detour offers further proof that a patsy and a femme fatale often add up to a satisfying story. Read critic reviews
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Al Roberts
Vera
Sue Harvey
Charles Haskell Jr
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Critic Reviews for Detour
All Critics (41) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (1)
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Tom Neal does extremely well in the long, difficult role of the petrified pianist whose misadventures are told in flashback; while Ann Savage all but blisters the screen with her venoemous, snarling performance as the vicious Vera.
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[Detour] is a morbid melodrama, depressing and uninteresting.
December 29, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
One of the most poignant and disturbing stories to reach the screen in any year is this one. You're not just looking at a picture; you're right in it and suffering along with the man whose troubles are being told.
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The film, told in flashbacks, is held together by a poetically lurid interior monologue and directed, by Edgar G. Ulmer, with harrowingly expressive effects of light and shadow.
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Uniformly good performances and some equally good direction and dialog keep the meller moving.
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One of the most daring and thoroughly perverse works of art ever to come out of Hollywood.
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Audience Reviews for Detour
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Mar 20, 2021Given the limited resources director Edgar G. Ulmer had this is a true masterwork. Stylistic and dream-like, Ulmer tells a story about unfortunate luck - fate - that resonates for lovers of this kind of cinema. Ann Savage's performance as a sociopathic femme fatale is a landmark for women in movies.Aldo G Super Reviewer
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Jul 13, 2014Pleasantly short and well-constructed, Detour may not be the most memorable work of film noir, however it is well-acted and features an intriguing plot. It's fun to watch and follow, especially due to Savage's great performance.Matthew Samuel M Super Reviewer
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Jan 28, 2014In one strange sequence a piano player, our downtrodden hero, lays down classical chops only the long hairs at Carnegie Hall could appreciate in front of a dive nightclub crowd that's barely awake. Even our hero seems not to care, and there's the charm of this nightmare: when he says or thinks "nobody cares" he's right, like a slow walk to the bathroom to slit your wrists. The dialogue is beautiful, the ending too quick, too pat, but the whole is like a two-year-old's pout dramatised. Visceral stuff.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Jun 12, 2013Thanks to Edgar G. Ulmer for causing in us suspension of disbelief: unbelievably bad luck had never been so entertaining. Respects go to Ann Savage for being a total menace, like if it was in her nature! 97/100Edgar C Super Reviewer
Detour Quotes
| Vera: | Stop makin? noises like a husband. |
| Vera: | Stop makin' noises like a husband. |
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