Product: Detour [VHS] (1945)
Rating: 5.0
Low-budget but highly influential and entertaining
This film is has no real fat to trim--it's as lean and mean as they come. Sure, some of the acting is just okay--it was low-budget afterall--but it's a very entertaining, gripping story of an innocent guy caught up in circumstances beyond his control. It's dark, nasty, and offers no comfort to anyone. As Errol Morris has said of film noirs like this: "You ask, 'Why are these bad things happening to me?' and the answer, the almost-unacceptable answer is, "For no reason whatsoever".