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You know that beautiful custom Lincoln Continental V-12 the rich guy was driving in Detour? That was director Edgar Ulmer's car. It was a few years old---it was a 1941 model---but that's because civilian car production ended in February, 1942, not because he couldn't afford a new one. Just because you worked on Poverty Row doesn't mean you were actually poor. Edgar Ulmer was doing just fine.
That was before cars had power steering or power brakes so the thing was probably murder to drive.
Odd that the movie made no mention of World War Two. Watching the rich guy popping what I assume was Benzedrine to stay awake made me wish we still had over-the-counter amphetamines. But then, I won't give it away, but something else happens and dangerous stimulants didn't seem so good after all.
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