Detour

Name: Detour
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ISBN: 9781844572397

ISBN-10: 1844572390

ISBN-13: 9781844572397

Edition: 2008

Authors: Noah Isenberg

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Long considered an unsung gem of filmnoir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer7;sDetour(1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition, judged 0;beyond remarkable1; by the film critic David Thomson. The only B-picture to make it into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress,Detourhas escaped its fate as the bastard child of one of Hollywood7;s lowliest studios. Ulmer7;s film follows, in flashback, the journey of Al Roberts (Tom Neal), a pianist hitching from New York to California to join his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake), a singer gone to seek her fortune in Hollywood. In classicnoirstyle,Detour features mysterious deaths, changes…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 8/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 105
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.52" long x 0.36" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




An Unlikely Story



Pulp Fictions



Movies on the Cheap



In Search of Meaning



And the Sky was Grey



Detour Redux


Postscript: Alone in the Dark


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