Continuing our series of writers highlighting hidden films available to stream is a recommendation for a 1945 film noir with a killer performanceThe lady is a wrecking ball.
Has there ever been a performance with the same bite-force per minute of screen time as Ann Savage in the 1945 film noir Detour? She appears at an Arizona gas station – hands on hips, not-gone-to-bed eyes, sour mouth, hair mussed by the desert wind – just over half an hour in.
When our fedora’d hero offers her a ride, she is already sizing him up as she walks over with her suitcase.
In 35 hot minutes, she will have humiliated him, destroyed his relationship, hung another murder on his tab, and have him ruefully signing off: “Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all.”Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch River of GrassContinue reading.
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