Crime/Detective [RTest, RTest135, RTestGood, RTestGood135] 1945 English PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation) Tom Neal Al Roberts Ann Savage Vera Edmund McDonald Charles Haskell, Jr. Tim Ryan Guy at diner Don Brodie Used-car salesman Claudia Drake Sue Harvey Esther Howard Holly Edgar G. Ulmer Martin Goldsmith (adapted from his novel) Benjamin H. Kline Max Hutchinson George McGuire Erdody Glenn P. Thompson Bud Westmore Mona Barry Chad Ossman's Complete "Detour" analysis

This is a great, but inarguably B-grade, film. The black-and-white Detour was written and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, and shot in six days on an extremely limited budget. It looks it, too. But Detour really is a classic, and set the noir-style template of disillusion and cruel fate that marked many later postwar films. NR