Detour (1945)

1h 7m

A hitchhiker’s (Tom Neal) luck goes from bad to worse when the man who gave him a ride suddenly dies. Worried that he might be accused of murder, he hides the body and takes on the man’s identity.

Episodes

  • Detour (1945): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Detour (1945)

    S2023 E112 - 1h 7m

    A hitchhiker’s (Tom Neal) luck goes from bad to worse when the man who gave him a ride suddenly dies. Worried that he might be accused of murder, he hides the body and takes on the man’s identity.

  • Scarlet Street (1945): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Scarlet Street (1945)

    S2023 E59 - 1h 41m

    A mild-mannered, middle-aged cashier and wannabe painter (Edward G. Robinson) saves a pretty, young woman of the streets (Joan Bennett) from her threatening boyfriend. The cashier soon becomes embroiled into the two’s life of crime and a cycle of destruction that he can’t escape.

  • Quicksand (1950): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Quicksand (1950)

    S2023 E108 - 1h 18m

    Mickey Rooney stars as a mechanic who borrows $20 from the till to take out a new girl, expecting to pay it back the next day. Over the course of the night, he slips deeper and deeper into debt and trouble in this film noir that also stars Peter Lorre.

  • The Red House (1947): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Red House (1947)

    S2023 E72 - 1h 40m

    Edward G. Robinson plays a crippled farmer who won't let his adopted daughter, or anyone else, near an abandoned red farmhouse located deep in the woods.

  • The Hitch-hiker (1953): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Hitch-hiker (1953)

    S2023 E63 - 1h 10m

    Based on a real-life event, two friends on a fishing trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be an escaped convict. The madman sadistically threatens the two friends and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. Directed by Ida Lupino.

  • Young and Innocent (1937): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Young and Innocent (1937)

    S2023 E44 - 1h 22m

    A man turns fugitive after he finds the body of a young actress washed up on a beach and is promptly accused of her murder in this pre-war thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

  • Topper Takes a Trip (1938): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

    S2023 E89 - 1h 20m

    When ghost Constance Bennett inadvertently causes a rift in her friend Cosmo Topper’s marriage, she works to reunite the couple and gain entry into heaven.

  • Topper (1937): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Topper (1937)

    S2023 E88 - 1h 37m

    When a free spirit couple (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett) dies in a car accident, they return as ghosts, determined to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young).

  • Topper Returns (1941): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Topper Returns (1941)

    S2023 E121 - 1h 28m

    Stuffy banker turned ghost whisperer Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is tormented by another mischievous spirit. This time it's a beautiful girl, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, the intended victim. With Topper's help, the pretty ghost sets out to find her killer with hilarious results.

  • My Favorite Brunette (1947): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    My Favorite Brunette (1947)

    S2023 E129 - 1h 27m

    Bob Hope is a baby photographer who is mistaken for a detective by a beautiful baroness (Dorothy Lamour). The fake gumshoe is soon in all kinds of trouble in this comedic film noir parody that co-stars Alan Ladd, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr.

  • Road to Bali (1952): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Road to Bali (1952)

    S2023 E64 - 1h 30m

    Bob Hope and Bing Crosby star as two song-and-dance men that escape marriage by signing on as deep-sea divers headed to the island of Bali, where they attract the attention of Princess Lala.

  • Never Wave at a WAC (1952): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Never Wave at a WAC (1952)

    S2023 E86 - 1h 26m

    Rosalind Russell is a divorced socialite and politician’s daughter who joins the Women’s Army Corps to be closer to her boyfriend, a colonel. Expecting to be made an officer because of her father’s standing, she learns that she has to tough it out as an ordinary private.

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