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Stars: Tom Neal, Leo Carrillo, Sheldon Leonard, Lionel AtwillDirector: Lew LandersA crusading reporte is caught in themiddle of a bloody war between a notori...
18 de dic. de 2010 · Tom Neal is utterly clueless in his role as reporter Jim Riley. Martha Tilton is even worse as the love interest, Betty. During the scene where he told her he loved her, the lack of acting ability was painfully apparent.
25 de mar. de 2016 · Two years later he wed a receptionist named Gale Bennett in Las Vegas. When her body was discovered on the lounge of their Palm Springs home in April 1965, with a .45 bullet wound in the back of the head, Neal was immediately suspected to have been involved in her death and duly arrested. Gail Bennett.
Detour is a 1945 American independent film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.The screenplay was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's 1939 novel of the same title, and released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
Thomas Carroll Neal Jr. (January 28, 1914 – August 7, 1972) was an American actor and successful amateur boxer best known for his co-starring role in the critically lauded film Detour, for having a widely publicized affair with actress Barbara Payton, and for later being convicted and imprisoned for involuntary manslaughter.
What are the noir elements at work and play in Detour? First the (anti)hero, who is on edge and in something of as nervous panic in every scene. Tom Neal excels at this, and is terrified of his shadow and seconds away from a cold, unshaven sweat in scenes, even when he doesn’t need to be. Next, the female lead.
The look she gives Tom Neal is as memorable and fatal as anything else on screen, as she announces herself as one of the great screen psychos. The Motion Picture Production Code, a set of moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968, meant that the ...
