Detour - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Detour"

Detour (1945)

Timing: 1:8 (68 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Trailer

English

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What's left behind the scenes

According to later testimonies from Ulmer and Savage, the film was shot in six days. In a 2004 documentary, Ulmer's daughter Arianna shows the title page of the director's script, which contains a note: «June 14, 1945 – June 29. 14 shooting days».
Given the low budget, reshoots were out of the question. Ulmer, prioritizing the plot over coherence, printed some hitchhiking scenes from the reversed negative. Thus, while depicting a journey west from New York to Los Angeles, the cars move from right to left, but not in the 'correct' lane; the hitchhiker gets into the car on the driver's side.
According to Anne Savage (1921-2008), who played Vera, she and Tom Neal (1914-1972), the actor portraying Al, did not get along on set. Once, he embarrassed her by licking her ear in front of everyone. She responded by slapping him in the face. After that, they only spoke to each other through their characters' lines.
The script did not originally include the arrest of Tom Neal's character. He was arrested only at the insistence of censor Joseph Breen (1888-1965), as rules of the period stipulated that films could not depict a criminal escaping deserved punishment, and a scene of the arrest was inserted.
In this film, Tom Neal plays a man who accidentally kills two people. Neal himself was later arrested and sentenced to six years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of his wife, Gail Bennett.
According to later testimonies from Ulmer and Savage, the film was shot in six days. In a 2004 documentary, Ulmer’s daughter, Arianna, shows the title page of the director’s script, which has a note: “June 14, 1945 – June 29. 14 shooting days.”
Since reshoots were out of the question with such a low budget, Ulmer, who prioritized the overall plot over coherence, printed some hitchhiking scenes from a flipped negative. Thus, while showing a journey west from New York to Los Angeles, the cars move from right to left, but not in their “correct” lane; the hitchhiker also gets into the car on the driver’s side.

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