Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Detour (1945), Edgar G Ulmer.


You know when two men start discussing scars, it's only going to get more interesting.  Nightmarish hitchhiking thriller that's just about entirely filmed with process shots - you know, those  annoyingly fake scenes of actors pretending to drive a car with a stock footage background.  But in this case, the story's too good to worry about whether or not he's really steering all the bends in the roads.  Ann Savage plays just about the most hideous, loathsome, witchy female film character I can think of.  In an interview with Bogdanovich, Edgar G Ulmer reminds us that his leading man, Tom Neale, had many shady misadventures off-screen as well.  Next: must track down Ulmer's The Naked Dawn!
 

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