Season 2: Detour (1945)
Episode 9 of the Speakeasy Noir Cast podcast, hosted by Resurrection Films, titled "Season 2: Detour (1945)" was published on April 28, 2021 and runs 49 minutes.
April 28, 2021 ·49m · Speakeasy Noir Cast
Summary
In this episode we talk Spiders, name badges, rescue Jason from a vortex of bourbon research and discuss Detour! In New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for Hollywood, Calif. When Al gets some money, he decides to hitchhike to California to join Sue. In Arizona, Al accepts a ride with Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald), but during a storm in a freak accident, Haskell is killed. Frightened, Al assumes Haskell's identity and car, but soon comes upon the mysterious Vera (Ann Savage), who seems to know all about his true identity.