Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 10/22/2002
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 67 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Alpha Video
Edgar G. Ulmer's
Detour begins when hitchhiker
Al Roberts (
Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler
Charles Haskell Jr. (
Edmund MacDonald). When
Haskell suffers a fatal heart attack,
Roberts, afraid that he'll be accused of murder, disposes of the body, takes the man's clothes and wallet, and begins driving the car himself. He picks up beautiful but sullen
Vera (
Ann Savage), who suddenly breaks the silence by asking, "What did you do with the body?" It turns out that
Vera had earlier accepted a ride from
Haskell and has immediately spotted
Roberts as a ringer. Holding the threat of summoning the police over his head,
Vera forces
Roberts to continue his pose so that he can collect a legacy from
Haskell's millionaire father, who hasn't seen his son in years.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
