Detour
He went searching for love… but fate forced a DETOUR to revelry… violence… mystery!
Country
Production
Budget
$30 000
Box office
$0
Director
Actors
Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason, Don Brodie, Roger Clark, Eddie Hall
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Leon Fromkess
Camera operator
Benjamin H. Kline
Composer
Leo Erdody
Artist
Audition
Editing
George McGuire
Whole Team (15)
Whole Team (15)
Short description
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to Anne Savage (1921-2008), who played Vera, she and Tom Neal (1914-1972), the actor portraying Al, did not get along on set. Once, he embarrassed her by licking her ear in front of everyone. She responded by slapping him in the face. After that, they only spoke to each other through their characters' lines.
- The script did not originally include the arrest of Tom Neal's character. He was arrested only at the insistence of censor Joseph Breen (1888-1965), as rules of the period stipulated that films could not depict a criminal escaping deserved punishment, and a scene of the arrest was inserted.
- In this film, Tom Neal plays a man who accidentally kills two people. Neal himself was later arrested and sentenced to six years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of his wife, Gail Bennett.
- According to later testimonies from Ulmer and Savage, the film was shot in six days. In a 2004 documentary, Ulmer’s daughter, Arianna, shows the title page of the director’s script, which has a note: “June 14, 1945 – June 29. 14 shooting days.”
- Since reshoots were out of the question with such a low budget, Ulmer, who prioritized the overall plot over coherence, printed some hitchhiking scenes from a flipped negative. Thus, while showing a journey west from New York to Los Angeles, the cars move from right to left, but not in their “correct” lane; the hitchhiker also gets into the car on the driver’s side.
- According to later accounts by Ulmer and Savage, the film was shot in six days. In a 2004 documentary, Ulmer's daughter, Arianna, shows the title page of the director's script, which bears the note: 'June 14, 1945 — June 29. 14 shooting days.'
- Since reshoots were out of the question given such a low budget, Ulmer—who prioritized the overall plot over coherence—printed some of the hitchhiking scenes from a flipped negative. Consequently, while depicting a westward journey from New York to Los Angeles, the cars move from right to left but not in their own lane; furthermore, the hitchhiker enters the car on the driver's side.
- According to Anne Savage (1921–2008), who played Vera, she and the actor playing Al, Tom Neal (1914–1972), did not get along on set. Once, he embarrassed her by licking her ear in front of everyone. She responded by slapping him across the face. After that, they spoke to each other only within the limits of their characters' lines.
- The arrest of Tom Neal's character was not in the script. He was arrested only at the insistence of censor Joseph Breen (1888–1965), as the rules of that period prohibited films from showing a criminal escaping deserved punishment, and thus an arrest scene was inserted into the movie.
- In this film, Tom Neill plays a man who accidentally kills two people. Neill's character was subsequently arrested and sentenced to six years for the manslaughter of Gale Bennett's wife.
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