Detour
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Movie Reviews of Detour
Movie Review: Image is better than Alpha and A2zcds.com Remastered Edition
Summary: 5 Stars
Five stars for the movie. I agree that this is a great work of film noir.
I knew upfront that the print quality of this film would be less than perfect. So, in order to get the very best print, I purchased all three DVDs that were available - Alpha Video, Image Entertainment, and the A2zcds Remastered Edition.
The A2zcds Remastered Edition of "Detour" is a piece of junk. Don't waste your money. It has the picture quality of an amateur You Tube video. The various shades of black and gray are broken down into large digital cubes. The digital cubes are about a half inch in size and dance all over the screen when there is any movement - which is very distracting. Also, for more than half of the movie, from the point of the movie where Tom Neal picks up Ann Savage and they begin talking in the car - the voice audio track is not in sync with the lip movement. You hear what the person says before their lips even move.
The Alpha Video release of "Detour" has problems with its grays. The grays are not crisp and have a very small hint of sepia color. Also, the audio seems a little muffled.
The Image Entertainment release of "Detour" while far from perfect is the better one of the three versions currently available.
Movie Review: You will feel what Tom Neal feels!
Summary: 5 Stars
Considered to be one of the best film noirs ever made.
In my opinion, this is a darn good, rainy day/late night film. I won't tell you anything about the plot, but there are plenty of twists and surprises in this one.
Simply, a piano player travels from state to state. A girlfriend that he was fond of, he called on the phone. She went to Hollywood to perform and be an actress. He misses her, so he hawks everything and hitch-hikes cross-country to get back together with her. So here he is on the road hitch-hiking when a nice man picks him up and from there this story moves fast.
This film is a must-see. It only runs 67 minutes. Alpha Video is offering a very fine print of film. Quite clear.
Tom Neal had a troubled life after this film. But you can read more of that elsewhere on the web.
His son, Tom Neal Jr. (son of Tom Neal) starred in the remake of "Detour" in 1992.
Ann Savage is the only member of this 1945 cast still alive.
This DVD version contains an "Index" which is a chapter selection. No extras or bonuses.
Movie Review: Classic No-Budget Noir.
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me preface this review by mentioning that this was filmed in 6 days Yep, that's right. SIX DAYS. The director was also rationed
a certain amount of film and was told by the studio that he had to shoot within 15 miles of the studio's headquarters. Despite those limitations, this is a classic 1945 low-budget film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
Though I wouldn't go as far as to call it surreal, the low budget quality and the simplicity of the plot make it almost dream like. It's 67 minutes of pure noir bliss. This is a fatalistic and bleak film that also features one of the bitchiest femme fatales ever: the sexy Ann Savage who plays Vera, a nasty little woman who gives our main character a lot of trouble.
Highly recommended for film noir fans and for fans of low (no) budget cult cinema.
Movie Review: Classic Film Noir
Summary: 5 Stars
Film Noir flourished in the forties and early fifties. Bogart's Maltese Falcon supposedly is the first film with a destructive hard guy and scarlet woman pairing. Love rarely works out and you're more likely to get bumped off than score the perfect heist. The cinematography is black and white with plenty of fog or dark shadows. There's an underlying dread, a cynical Chesterfield cigarette on the lip of coming doom.
Detour is classic Film Noir. It's a B flick that is at first glance primitive, maybe shot in ten days. Tom Neal is in Ann Savage's web after he accidentally kills a man. It is so simple yet so intriguing. Ann Savage is forgotten, but not by me. She is the greatest evil woman ever in film. Rent this one immediately.
Movie Review: It was a fatal decision !
Summary: 5 Stars
A young musician but no smart guy decides in a rainy night to hitchike . But the fate will appear in his life turning his existence in a real hell . These random agressions will lead us to a passionate and brilliant film noir .
Jacques Tourneur made to me his glorious masterpiece with this work which I guess influenced decisively to Louis Malle to make eleven years after Elevator to the Gallows .
The particular charm of this film is that somehow the movie overcomes the genre and becomes a tragic play with all its sinister ugliness.
One of the five top noir films in any age !