Detour

Digital Restoration

Detour isn’t just a masterpiece, it’s . . . a jagged chunk of the American psyche.

Village Voice
featuring

Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald,

“No matter what you do, no matter where you turn, fate sticks out its foot to trip you,” gripes Detour’s Al Roberts (Tom Neal), a master of deadpan anxiety, who, it must be said, does his part to invite that intrusive boot at every turn. Nothing tempts fate like the guilt of an innocent man. Has anyone in films since Peter Lorre had worse luck, or worse judgment? But that’s the fun of Detour, a bitter, brittle noir that emerges out of the fog of German Expressionism to thumb a ride across the map of the United States. 

Judy Bloch
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Martin Goldsmith
Cinematographer
  • Benjamin H. Kline
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 68 mins
Source
  • Janus Films

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