68 minutes I'll never …
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Ironman54 — 9 years ago(April 10, 2016 12:07 PM)
well, you know the rest. Saw this recommended on another film noirs page and thought the comments were recommending this - in the parlance of the day 'Stinker'. Man is this one laughably BAD.
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Woodyanders — 6 years ago(July 15, 2019 11:49 PM)
I absolutely love this film. It's pure unvarnished film noir nihilism at its most bleak and despairing, complete with a pathetic hard-luck chump for a "hero," a deliciously hateful and venomous femme fatale, a beautifully brooding gloom-doom mood that positively drips with dread and despair, and a dandy serpentine plot that winds towards an inevitable grim ending.
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john kenrick — 5 months ago(October 12, 2025 03:25 AM)
I agree with your estimation of
Detour
, Woodyanders. It's one of the earliest of the "nihilistic classics" of the war and postwar eras, with
Odd Man Out
and
In Cold Blood
higher budgeted and more artistically ambitious films with similar themes, although those two seem to have more blame to "go around". Then there were pulpier films along similar lines, such as
The Cruel Tower
and
Town Without Pity
. Even into the 60s there was
Cape Fear
and the Sal Mineo vehicle, such as it can be called,
Who Killed Teddy Bear
.