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"Detour:" rated as highly as any in the noir genre, this one boasts

Posted by tinear on February 19, 2008 at 16:45:17:
Tom Neal in the lead. His life was as interesting as the character he portrayed: he graduated from Harvard Law, was a superior boxer, and later in life killed his wife, shooting her head off from behind with a .45 caliber handgun (he served six years). Earlier, Neal had beaten Franchot Tone to a pulp, breaking a cheekbone, smashing his nose, and giving him a concussion as they fought over a woman.
In "Detour" however, even the real life Neal would have met his match.
A man picks up a hitchhiker and, soon after, the driver dies accidentally. The hitchhiker takes the car and picks up a woman, but she instantly--- in one of those coincidences--- recognizes the car as that of a man she briefly had known. A deadly game of blackmail ensues. The femme fatale coldly is played by the striking Ann Savage (what a perfect stage name!).
This is a no-frills noir film that wastes no time in extraneous scenes or character development: we see the characters' most brutal, raw emotions exposed and then we see them scratched and ripped to pieces.
A violent, ugly, and utterly fascinating film.