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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 (Tom Neal) 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.

Contributors:

Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972 , film director

Goldsmith, Martin M., 1913-1994 , screenwriter

Fromkess, Leon , film producer

Neal, Tom, 1914-1972 , actor

Savage, Ann, 1921-2008 , actor

Drake, Claudia , actor

MacDonald, Edmund , actor

Ryan, Tim, 1899-1956 , actor

Howard, Esther, 1892-1965 , actor

Gleason, Pat, 1904-1993 , actor

Kline, Benjamin, 1894-1974 , director of photography

McGuire, George , editor of moving image work

Erdody, Leo, 1888-1949 , composer

Producers' Releasing Corporation , presenter, production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Main Work:

Detour (Motion picture : 1945)

Related Works:

Motion picture adaptation of: Detour [by Goldsmith, M.M.]

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 966

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships — United States — Drama

Hitchhiking — United States — Drama

Jazz musicians — United States — Drama

False personation — Drama

Extortion — Drama

Man-woman relationships

Hitchhiking

Jazz musicians

False personation

Extortion

United States

Genres:

Motion pictures

Film noir

Film adaptations

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Drama

System Details:

Blu-ray, region A; monaural.

Performers:

Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason.

Production Credits:

Director of photography, Benjamin H. Kline ; editor, George McGuire ; music, Erdody.

General Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Based upon the novel Detour : an extraordinary tale, by Martin Goldsmith.
"Detour (1945) was restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive and the Film Foundation in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, the Museum of Modern Art, Cinémathèque Française"--opening stillframe.
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; An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; region A

Call Numbers:

DET 1945 BLU

ISBNs:

9781681435633
1681435632

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515227810
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC3006BD

OCLC Numbers:

1084287797