Favorite all-time noir? "Detour:" a brilliant little gem by under-rated
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director Edgar G. Ulmer. The narrator is a (what else?) down on his luck guy--- a musician--- who hitches his way across the country. On the way, he meets a talkative salesman and a woman, also trying to get to California. Nothing is as it appears in this perfect and perfectly dark drama. Ann Savage plays the femme fatale-- one of the finest creations of an evil and unscrupulous force ever committed to film. You think Bette Davis or Joan Crawford could do heartless and cruel? Buckle up, you ain't seen nothin!' Tom Neal plays a role he was born for: a gold-hearted but tough-as-nails guy who isn't half as smart as he thinks he is. The direction is simply brilliant: the viewer, upon hindsight, isn't sure of who-did-what-to-whom and with what intentionality. Savage had an interesting life. At an advanced age, she got a pilot's license to be "closer to (her deceased husband) and to God."
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| Leni and fish share cold bloodedness. Maybe that was the attraction... nt, posted on December 30, 2020 at 15:11:28 | |
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