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Detour

Verified19451h 8mBlack & White3.7 / 5362.7k viewsPublic Domain

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Archivist Notes

Freddie Jaye★★★★

"A tight little flick, filed with many unlikely coincidences. I plucked this idea from an IMDB message board: is "Al Roberts" truly innocent, and the ..."

2/2/2009
jimelena★★★★

"Pretty entertaining after you get by the first 15 minutes of back story."

6/6/2007
robcat2075★★★★

"Of all the opportune coincidences in this movie, the saxophone player in the next room is the best. A first class B movie, and really, a $100,000 bud..."

2/12/2007
fubunics

"The MPEG2 file is encoded at 640x480, in other words whoever encoded it is defeating the purpose of even encoding it at MPEG2 and it has to be re-enco..."

2/9/2007
LordOfTheExacto★★★★

"This noir is more frightening than gritty in its domino-like series of events. The protagonist Al, played by Tom Neal, starts out as kind of a hard-bi..."

1/26/2007
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