Detour is not currently booked at any Toronto cinema. We last tracked it at Fox Theatre in August 2026. Set a free alert below and we'll email you the moment it's programmed again. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, released in 1945, crime and drama, 67 minutes long.
Piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is drinking coffee at a roadside diner in Reno, Nevada, hitchhiking east from California, when a fellow patron plays a song on the jukebox that reminds him of his former life in New York City. He remembers a time when he was bitter about squandering his musical talent working in a cheap nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), the nightclub vocalist, leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he sinks into depression. After some anguish, he decides to go to California and marry her; but with little money, he is forced to Hitchhiking his way across the country.
via TheTVDB
