Detour (1945)
Plays here · source: Internet Archive
A hitchhiking nightclub pianist heading west to reunite with his girl is dragged into a spiral of bad luck, a dead stranger, and a blackmailer who will not let go.
Shot in six days on Poverty Row, Detour has become the definitive statement of noir fatalism: “whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.”
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