#ManCrushMonday Tom Neal as Al Roberts in "Detour" (1945)

Piano player Al Roberts is making his way to California just for a girl. On the way, he gets a ride from an Arizonian pill-popping bookie, but while Roberts is behind the wheel, he discovers Charles dead in the passenger seat. He dumps the body off the road knowing the police would suspect him. He assumes the bookie's identity taking the car as well as his clothes and money. But when Roberts picks up his own beautiful hitch-hiker (Ann Savage), he finds out she was also picked up by Charles and almost raped. Vera might also know how Charles really died, but she isn't talking and threatens Al that she will call the police on him although for a crime he didn't commit. In Hollywood, they sell Charles's car and discover he is the son of money ready to offer any amount for Haskell Sr.'s long estranged son. This is the beginning of the end for Roberts, who refuses to pose just for her no matter how much Vera blackmails him or is holding all the purse strings of the money Haskell already had. The incoming fight has dire consequences for the both of them.