DETOUR Trivia…
March 18, 2009
April 1st at 8pm “Detour” at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts.
Here is some good trivia about our upcoming movie Detour. Just to whet your appetite :
Detour Was the first “poverty row” movie chosen by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry, in 1992.
Detour was shot in six days in mostly two locations: the hotel room and the car in front of a rear projection screen.
The budget PRC gave director Edgar G. Ulmer for this film was 20,000… So small that the 1941 Lincoln Continental V-12 convertible driven by Charles Haskell was actually Ulmer’s personal car.
With re-shoots out of the question for such a low budget movie, director Edgar G. Ulmer made the decision to place storytelling conventions above continuity.
Detour‘s famous example of this is the reversal of the hitchhiking scenes. In order to parallel the westbound New York to Los Angeles travel of the character with right-to-left movement across the screen, many scenes had to be flipped. This caused the cars to appear to be driving on the wrong side of the road, and the hitchhiker to enter the car on the driver’s side.
Actor Tom Neal’s career came to and end shortly after Detour, after he beat up another actor. He was later jailed for shooting his third wife. He died just after his release.
