Out of the Past 2019 / Detour / USA 1945
A failed jazz pianist sets out to visit his fiancée in Hollywood. But the country he drives through is dark and rainy, and the jukebox is always playing the wrong song. A noir tale about the unluckiest man ever to grace the silver screen.
Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, the Museum of Modern Art, and Cinémathèque Française. Restoration funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
Al Roberts plays the piano at a New York dive. Wanting more, his fiancée heads for Los Angeles to pursue her dreams. Al eventually decides to join her, but his journey hitchhiking across the country ends differently than he imagined. He’s picked up by a lone gambler named Haskell, who later dies in an unfortunate accident. Al doesn’t know what to do, and circumstances force him to adopt Haskell’s identity. But his bad luck is far from over – in fact, it’s only just begun: his transcontinental journey turns into an unstoppable slide down a slippery slope that leads all the way to murder.
Nikola Paggio
67 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Edgar G. Ulmer
/ Screenplay Martin Goldsmith
/ Dir. of Photography Benjamin H. Kline
/ Music Leo Erdody
/ Editor George McGuire
/ Art Director Edward C. Jewell
/ Producer Leon Fromkess
/ Production PRC Pictures, Inc.
/ Cast Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
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Edgar G. Ulmer (1904, Olomouc, Austria-Hungary – 1972, Woodland Hills, California). Selected filmography: The Black Cat (1934), Detour (1945), Club Havana (1945), The Strange Woman (1946), The Man from Planet X (1951), The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957), Hannibal (1959, co-dir. Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia), The Cavern (1964)
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