Detour
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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The epitome of the American Film Noir Genre, Detour tells the story of a down-on-his-luck pianist who goes on an ill-fated car ride leaving the driver dead. Worse, he gets stuck with a woman who blackmails him to no end under the threat she will go to the police and claim he murdered the driver, even though the driver's death had nothing to do with him.
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Detour (1945) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Starring
- Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason, Don Brodie
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