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Edgar G. Ulmer

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The Duke

In Reply to: RE: "Detour:" rated as highly as any in the noir genre, this one boasts posted by tinear on February 19, 2008 at 16:45:17

From Edgar G. Ulmer, considered the greatest "poverty row" director ever. His work is so good that many film critics classify his work as "auteur".

Check out "Bluebeard" (1944), "Strange Illusion" (1945), "The Strange Woman" (1946), and "The Man From Planet X" (1951).

My personal favorite is "Strange Illusion". This film is intensely surreal. I'd bet my last dollar that Luis Bunuel saw it and that it influenced him.

Edgar G. Ulmer rules!

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I just saw "Detour" for the second time and I found it to be MUCH - tinear 13:36:28 02/20/08 (0)
better than the first.
Neal and Savage really had an anti-chemistry thing going, beautifully!
I actually found the very few soft spots in her character intensely tragic, touching.
Neal was an underrated actor, too.
This film is just about perfect; I couldn't imagine changing one thing, kind of like a Miles Davis solo.

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