Product: Detour [VHS] (1945)
Rating: 4.0
Boy meets girl ala' Jim Thompson
Wow, this is a tough,gritty film. It deserves every good word that has been ever printed about it. Since the other reviews cover the plot and style,all I have to say is that what makes this movie great for me is that it has a quality similar to a Greek tradgedy.Is it the woman or a weakness in himself that dooms him? You can see the hero's doom rushing to inevitably meet him,and he rushing to meet it,yet you hope he can somehow avoid it.Will he? That's the question that keeps you nailed to your seat. And the ending, it's right up there with the ending to the Paul Muni film "I am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang".