Detour


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poster for DetourIn flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he's riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man's identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts' every move plunges him deeper into trouble...

After his girlfriend Sue has left for the West Coast, Al Roberts decides to join her and starts a journey hitchhiking westwards. When he finds a driver who'd given him a lift dead, he decides to get rid of the body and take the man's identity, fearing he'd be accused of murder if he would go to the police. However, Vera, a hitchhiking girl Al picks up, sees through him and starts blackmailing him into going along with her schemes which get him deeper and deeper into trouble.

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Language: English

Year of production: 1945

Length: 1 hr 7 min

Country: United States

Suggested by:
Baxter Martin

Directors:

Edgar G. Ulmer

Producers:

Leon Fromkess
Martin Mooney

Actors:

Tom Neal
Ann Savage
Claudia Drake
Edmund MacDonald
Tim Ryan

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