Detour
“He went searching for love… but fate forced a DETOUR to revelry… violence… mystery!”
1945 · 1 h 6 min
Edgar G. UlmerCast
Tom Neal 
Ann Savage Claudia Drake Edmund MacDonald Tim Ryan 
Esther Howard
Credits
Written by: Martin Goldsmith
Plot
A down-and-out pianist hitchhiking to Los Angeles is drawn into a nightmare of death and blackmail by a cruel woman, in a cheap, bleak and fatalistic film noir made in six days.
Sinekatalog’s take
A cheap but gripping, bleak and fatalistic noir classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (22,534 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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