Showing posts with label Ann Savage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ann Savage. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 October 2023
Sunday, 23 August 2020
Detour (1945)
Chance events trap a hitch-hiker Al Roberts into a tightening net of trouble.
Wonderful Film Noir classic that creates a hopeless fate almost too extreme to believe, but that's just as well part of its message.
On rewatching: Highly entertaining low-budget Noir drama with an over-the-top (and extremely unlikely) doom-laden plot - and a particularly vicious femme fatale.
Halliwell*: "A minor cult movie with as much doomladen dialogue and film noir angles as could be shovelled into a Poverty Row 'B' at the time. On the whole, less than meets the eye."
Maltin***: "Now-legendary B movie, filmed in less than a week, is the qintessence of film noir...(Savage, in an unforgettable performance), Ulmer makes best of his meagre budget."
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Detour (1945)
Chance events trap a hitch-hiker Al Roberts into a tightening net of trouble.
Wonderful Film Noir classic that creates a hopeless fate almost too extreme to believe, but that's just as well part of its message.
Halliwell*: "A minor cult movie with as much doomladen dialogue and film noir angles as could be shovelled into a Poverty Row 'B' at the time. On the whole, less than meets the eye."
Maltin***: "Now-legendary B movie, filmed in less than a week, is the qintessence of film noir...(Savage, in an unforgettable performance), Ulmer makes best of his meagre budget."
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