Tolles Schwarze-Serie-B-Picture von Edgar G. Ulmer, in dem vor allem die uns zuvor unbekannte Hauptdarstellerin Ann Savage gefiel.
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Es gibt übrigens den kompletten Film auf Youtube zu sehen. Und ja, er ist wirklich nur 67 Minuten lang:
P.S. von Silke:
Auf der TIME-Liste, die die besten 100 Filme seit 1923 listet: All-TIME 100 Movies
P.P.S. von Silke:
Gunnar schrieb am 7.12.2018: "Schöne kleine Würdigung im aktuellen New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/detour"
Hier der Text:
"The film-noir B-movie classic “Detour,” from 1945, is an object lesson in low-budget Hollywood artistry and one of the few movies that can rightly be called Kafkaesque. It’s the tale of a frustrated New York night-club pianist with high-art aspirations (played by Tom Neal), who hitchhikes across the country to rejoin his girlfriend, a singer (Claudia Drake), in Los Angeles. But, en route, he falls prey to an intricate and riotous series of coincidences that lead him into the clutches of another wanderer (Ann Savage) and grind his ambitious spirit to dust. The film, told in flashbacks, is held together by a poetically lurid interior monologue and directed, by Edgar G. Ulmer, with harrowingly expressive effects of light and shadow. “Detour” is coming to Film Forum for a weeklong run (starting Nov. 30), in a new and meticulous restoration that doubtless took more time and resources to create than the original production did—which may be the movie’s final joke on history.
— Richard Brody"


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