A low budget Hollywood movie that breaks boundaries at any level, that of what the genre became, included. Valid proof you can do more with less but with more creative freedom than more with more but less creative liberties that the studio system and producers force(d) on directors and actors for ages. An implied statement on why the American dream was always broken and flawed.
Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The screenplay was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith’s 1939 novel of the same title, and released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
In 1992, Detour was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The film, which today is in the public domain and freely available for viewing at various online sources, was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2018.