Product: Detour [VHS] (1945)
Rating: 4.0
Great B-Movie Noir
This is a movie that should be horrible. It has almost no budget -- it feels like half the movie takes place in one hotel room. The acting is, well what can I say, unconventional. Ann Savage plays such an unrelenting b**ch it's hard to believe that she's actually acting. I mean, an actor would vary things a little, wouldn't they? She should be a camp icon. Tom Neal plays the noir ueber-schmuck with so much spinelessness you feel he deserves the horrible things that happen to him. And yet, somehow, it all works. It might be so bad it's good. Or it might just be good. I'm not sure. If you are a fan of Film Noir this is a must see.