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Shot in about six days for roughly $20,000 by a Poverty Row studio, Detour turns its own cheapness into style -- fog, shadow, and a murder the hero insists was just bad luck. Al narrates the whole film as a man fate keeps tripping, and this scene is the moment the audience has to decide whether to believe him. It's since been restored by the Academy Film Archive and inducted into the National Film Registry.