Detour The Film Detective

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

Film Detective (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Mass media--Study and teaching.

Mass media.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 7 min., 13 sec)) sound, color

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2019

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : The Film Detective, [1945]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

This Poverty Row landmark features Tom Neal as Al, a lowlife nightclub pianist hitchhiking across the country. Along the way he falls into so many ill-fated circumstances that he wishes he'd stayed in New York. Despite its downbeat atmosphere, this dirty crime classic from cult director Edgar G. Ulmer has many admirers. The late Roger Ebert described Detour as "haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it." Ann Savage puts in a mesmerizing performance as Vera, the dangerous woman Al meets on his road to ruin

Contents:

Detour (7:13);

Notes:

Originally released by The Film Detective, 1945

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 28, 2019

Title from distributor's description

OCLC:

1105778944

Publisher Number:

183520 Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license