The 1945 version of "Detour" is a good movie.
But, as far as I'm concerned, the main interest of the film is the chance it provides us to see the controversial actor Tom Neal at work.
I don't know whether there are better prints of this film in existence than the one I saw, but the print I saw had such an awful soundtrack that at times it was extremely difficult to follow the dialog.
I understand that this movie was made in six days.
Perhaps the production values were simply so low that the original sound and picture quality were just awful(?).....that would seem to be the case, from the print I got to see.
The star of this movie, Tom Neal, was an ex-boxer in real life.
He later served time in prison on a murder conviction.
He was best known because of the fact that he beat actor Franchot Tone so severely that he broke Tone's nose and gave Tone a brain concussion.
But, as far as I'm concerned, the main interest of the film is the chance it provides us to see the controversial actor Tom Neal at work.
I don't know whether there are better prints of this film in existence than the one I saw, but the print I saw had such an awful soundtrack that at times it was extremely difficult to follow the dialog.
I understand that this movie was made in six days.
Perhaps the production values were simply so low that the original sound and picture quality were just awful(?).....that would seem to be the case, from the print I got to see.
The star of this movie, Tom Neal, was an ex-boxer in real life.
He later served time in prison on a murder conviction.
He was best known because of the fact that he beat actor Franchot Tone so severely that he broke Tone's nose and gave Tone a brain concussion.