This edition: Detour
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Original tape date: January 9, 2024. First aired: March 1, 2024.Detour is a 1945 American independent 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 New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for Hollywood, Calif. When Al gets some money, he decides to hitchhike to California to join Sue. In Arizona, Al accepts a ride with Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald), but during a storm in a freak accident, Haskell is killed. Frightened, Al assumes Haskell's identity and car, but soon comes upon the mysterious Vera (Ann Savage), who seems to know all about his true identity.
Guest List
Richard Peña Film Historian
- The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
- Friday, February 13 - 12:00am
- Saturday, February 14 - 12:00am
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- The Blood of Jesus (1941)
- Friday, February 13 - 9:30pm
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- The Emperor Jones (1933)
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- "St. Louis Blues" & "The Duke is Tops"
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- FALLEN ANGEL
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- The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
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- July Rain
- Friday, January 30 - 9:30pm
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- I Am Twenty
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- I Walk the Streets of Moscow
- Friday, January 16 - 9:30pm
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- Of Human Bondage (1934)
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