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Post by MiketheMechanic on Mar 22, 2017 16:09:25 GMT
Saw it for the first time and, wow! Starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage with a relatively short running time that moves quickly, this was an instant classic.
And Savage's performance certainly lived her up to her last name!
Great film!!
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Post by london777 on Mar 22, 2017 22:45:32 GMT
Hi Mike
By coincidence I just posted about Detour in Pinky's recent thread:
TCM has had a bunch of great movies on the past
Great minds think alike!
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Mar 23, 2017 3:56:22 GMT
Hi Mike By coincidence I just posted abut Detour in Pinky's recent thread: TCM has had a bunch of great movies on the past
Great minds think alike! Hi London, Yes indeed! I'll check out Pinky's thread, thanks for the heads up!
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 23, 2017 4:40:40 GMT
Saw it for the first time and, wow! Starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage with a relatively short running time that moves quickly, this was an instant classic. And Savage's performance certainly lived her up to her last name! Great film!! it is. my write up for IMDB:
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2017 7:22:38 GMT
Not only is Detour a wild, smashing little gem of a movie, but in some of its motifs, one can trace a lineage to films to come such as Taxi Driver (1976) and Nightcrawler (2014).
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Post by telegonus on Mar 23, 2017 7:29:21 GMT
It's nice seeing Detour in the classics thread rather than the cult one. It was cult maybe forty or fifty years ago. Now it's a classic, and it deserves to be. You can always tell how good a movie is when it holds up to repeat viewings. Detour not only holds up but gets actually even more mesmerizing,--like a fever dream--after the first view viewings.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 23, 2017 21:32:12 GMT
A shout out for the Director the ultimate success and the low key brilliance of Detour lies in the creative genius of director the king of "Poverty Row" pictures... Edgar G Ulmer. A six day shoot with a meagre $30,000 budget materialized into one of the most discussed and cherished B Film Noirs. So much so that it has the distinction of being the first such film to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
With a limited budget Ulmer stylishly constructs an Imaginary world, non-sets are compensated to great effect with the use of contrasting light and dark an insecure atmosphere is masterly created. Within this environment, one that has little physical substance the fateful plight of our protagonists becomes a palpable reality..
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Post by politicidal on Mar 24, 2017 16:19:16 GMT
It's another good example of how a film can get a lot done in a short amount of time.
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