Detour

Dusty Nevada highway. Summer. A discarded comb. Small-time piano man Al picks up a ride, then a corpse, then a whole mess of trouble he can't talk his way out of. Noir doesn't get much bleaker.

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Edgar G. Ulmer directed Detour in 1945. See Edgar G. Ulmer's full filmography, where to start with Edgar G. Ulmer, or where to go after you've seen everything by Edgar G. Ulmer.

Detour was released in 1945 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 68 minutes.