Detour: A Noir Nightmare on a Poverty Row Budget
Released: 1945 Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer Detour is film noir stripped of all the usual studio polish, leaving bare the rotting surface of a ladder leading to a nightmarish decent into hell. And what a decent it is. Made by poverty row studio PRC in 1945, Detour is a fine example of what a small studio could do with a meager budget and produce what is now considered essential film noir viewing. Poverty row Hollywood was hardly taken…
