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Detour 1945 123movies

Detour 1945 123movies

He went searching for love… but fate forced a DETOUR to revelry… violence… mystery!Nov. 30, 194566 Min.
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Watch: Detour 1945 123movies, Full Movie Online – In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he’s riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man’s identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts’ every move plunges him deeper into trouble..
Plot: The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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7.3/10 Votes: 17,868
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N/A Votes: 273 Popularity: 10.878 | TMDB

Reviews:


I think that in order to get anything from this film noir, you have to accept from the outset that the acting is pretty poor. An implausibly weak Tom Neal, a downright irritating Ann Savage & an especially wooden Claudia Drake make this something you might win a perseverance award for, for sticking with. Tom Neal is driving across the USA when he makes a decision he soon regrets – picking up a rude, gobby woman (Ann Savage) on the highway who proceeds to rob, bully & blackmail him. Accidentally, she comes a cropper and (aside from a general feeling of thank the Lord from the audience) his relief is palpable. The route to his predicament is relayed via his somewhat pathetic retrospective narrative and her relentless onslaughts and they both combine to really grate after a while (say 20 minutes). It has little to redeem it, I’m afraid – neither the photography nor the script inject much pace and/or menace – it’s just a tiresome tirade.
Review By: CinemaSerf

Sleazy Nightmare!

Playing out as some kind of fate accompanied nightmare, Detour demands repeat viewings since the running time is so short it leaves you hankering for more come the end. We follow the protagonist Al Roberts on the road, and watch (with accompanied narration) a sequence of events that see him in the middle of nowhere at a diner fearing for his future.

Devilishly dark in tone, the film relies on a fine underplayed performance from Tom Neal as Roberts, and a gloriously annoying harpy femme fatale turn from Ann Savage as Vera. The film was made for next to nothing in only one week, and the whole film screams out as a low budget movie shot with a sleazy tint and less than stellar tech credits. Yet money can’t buy this type of atmospheric misery, where the vagaries of fate play their brutal film noir hands.

Upon release, it was just a poverty row “B” picture, and it passed by almost quietly. Unsurprisingly a few years later “French” cineastes picked up on it and as the years rolled by it has garnered critical reappraisals. So much so the likes of Scorsese and The Coen Brothers cottoned on and gleefully let the influence wash over them. Director was one Edgar G. Ulmer (“The Black Cat”, “Bluebeard”, “Strange Illusion”, “Ruthless”), and here he shows himself the master of low budgetary nous and devilish story telling. 9/10

Review By: John Chard
Either the protagonist is the most unlucky man alive …
Or he is lying. The entire film is told in flashback as Al Roberts (Tom Neal) sits in a dingy diner. At the beginning of his story, Al is a piano player in a low rent club in New York and his best girl is the singer. But then she grows tired of their professional stagnation and decides to go out west and try to get into pictures. Al gets lonely, calls her, and says he is coming out there too. She enthusiastically embraces the idea. He has no car and so he hitchhikes. He gets all of the way to Arizona before his bad luck hits. By the film’s end Al has implicated himself in two deaths that were accidents in both cases, but would be impossible to prove they were not murder, and is held prisoner by a dragon lady who wants to get him involved in a preposterous fraud scheme that he rightly decries as being impossible to pull off.

The acting and much of the dialogue is very melodramatic, bordering upon soapy, but it fits the story as so much of it involves conveying the emotion and doing so from the point of view of Al. Bogart and Mitchum wouldn’t have been right for this lead role. Either one of them would have come across as either too cool or too tough to put up with such a domineering femme fatale as Ann Savage’s Vera and seem so depressed and pathetic. Instead, Tom Neal is perfect as a guy who sees himself bound by fate and doomed.

But maybe the entirety of the story is made up. Al’s voice over could just be him sitting in the cafe creating an alibi story. Ann Savage’s performance as Vera was over the top maybe because it’s Al telling the story, and he wants to make himself look good. I don’t buy half of what he tells us; I think he was much more complicit in all of the deaths than he wants the audience to believe. Vera is a caricature of the noir femme fatale because he’s trying to convince us that everything was her idea or an accident or fate based on his act of true love – trying to get to his girl in California – and he’s completely innocent.

On the technical side, this one showed a great use of light, shadows, and music, and fine direction by Ulmer to keep the mood. It’s too bad nobody has restored this one as it resides in the public domain. This is one noir that will stay with you.

Review By: AlsExGal
Ann Savage – Nothing Else Needs To Be Said
Two words – Ann Savage – make this film worth viewing….and owning, if you are a film noir collector.

She is not a major player here. There is one lead actor (Tom Neal) and a few supporting ones in this ultra-low budget, amateurish-production values film. However, her character “Vera” has a place in film noir history as probably the nastiest woman to ever make an appearance in this genre.

Savage is so brutal that her insults, put-downs and nasty demeanor just make you laugh out loud. If this was made today, I could the imagine the profanity spewing out of her. She shows you don’t need that to get your points across.

The movie, as a whole, is not as good as many critics would have you believe. Until Savage enters, it’s so-so at best. Since it’s only 68 minutes, one can endure some mediocre material which features a real loser-of-a-man until the femme fatale arrives. Neal’s character is one of the ultimate downers on film and his life is just one big soap opera, at least if you listen to him moan about it. Without Ann, one viewing of this film would have been enough because Neal is just too much of a whining wimp to endure more than once…..but sweet little Vera saves the day, er film.

Review By: ccthemovieman-1

Other Information:

Original Title Detour
Release Date 1945-11-30
Release Year 1945

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 8 min (68 min)
Budget 30000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer Martin Goldsmith, Martin Mooney
Actors Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Detour 1945 123movies
Detour 1945 123movies
Detour 1945 123movies
Detour 1945 123movies
Detour 1945 123movies
Detour 1945 123movies
Original title Detour
TMDb Rating 7.233 273 votes

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