Films Noir: No-Budget Thrillers?

Lloydville from mardecortesbaja.com with yet another rather romantic take on noir:

…As early as 1945, in Edgar G. Ulmer’s no-budget thriller Detour, the combination of an exaggerated, expressionistic visual style and a sense of the world as morally unhinged at its core produced a template for the classic film noir, a vehicle for the subterranean mood of existential dread that gripped America in the wake of WWII…  More