Blu-ray
Detour
Call Number
- BLU-RAY MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (69 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
"From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run'a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hard-boiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration."--Container
Notes
Based on the novel Detour: an extraordinary tale by Martin Goldsmith.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; Edgar G. Ulmer: the man off-screen, a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with actor Ann Savage and filmmakers Roger Corman, Joe Dante, and Wim Wenders ; new interview with film scholar Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: a filmmaker at the margins ; new program about the restoration ; Janus Films rerelease trailer.