Date: Nov. 30th, 2020 06:39 am (UTC)
DETOUR (1945)
Femmes Fatale
75th Anniversary
United States
The quintessential B noir celebrates its 75th anniversary. A cross-country hitchhiker (Tom Neal) takes the express route to hell after picking up a wicked wastrel (Ann Savage) in a roadside filling station. DETOUR is dominated by the amazing performance of Savage as Vera, a woman made out of emotional ice, picked up hitchhiking on the highway by Neal, a man running away from his past in a car he stole after the driver died. In a bizarre twist, it turns out Vera knew the driver, and she totally dominates poor Neal as she directs his life into patterns he does not want or understand. There has never been a femme fatale like Savage in this extraordinary film, directed by the auteur of the Poverty Row studios, Edgar G. Ulmer. A bargain basement masterpiece!



OBSESSION (1943)
Femmes Fatale
Italy
[OSSESSIONE] This groundbreaking work of Italian neorealism is an earthy and unlicensed adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice." Reviled by the Catholic church and banned by Italy's Fascist government, all prints were destroyed — except one duplicate negative the director hid for decades, allowing OSSESSIONE to survive as Luchino Visconti's first masterpiece. Stars Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti generate serious heat as the adulterous and eventually murderous couple.
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