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Detour - The Criterion Collection
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Edgar G. Ulmer's legendary B movie, the quintessence of film noir, newly restored and on Blu‐ray for the first time.
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 (People on Sunday) turned threadbare production values and seedy, lowrent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hardboiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration.
Special Edition Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off‐Screen, a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with filmmakers Roger Corman, Joe Dante, and Wim Wenders and actor Ann Savage
- New interview with film scholar Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins
- New programme about the restoration of Detour
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- approx. 1 hour 9 minutes
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- PG
- Tom Neal
- Ann Savage
- 1945
- English
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Detour - The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray
RRP: £27.99
£21.99
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Edgar G. Ulmer's legendary B movie, the quintessence of film noir, newly restored and on Blu‐ray for the first time.
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 (People on Sunday) turned threadbare production values and seedy, lowrent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hardboiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration.
Special Edition Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off‐Screen, a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with filmmakers Roger Corman, Joe Dante, and Wim Wenders and actor Ann Savage
- New interview with film scholar Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins
- New programme about the restoration of Detour
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- approx. 1 hour 9 minutes
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- PG
- Tom Neal
- Ann Savage
- 1945
- English
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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Good film noir BIT short !
Edgar G. Ulmer’s famous Film Noir. Great writing and direction. This is a taught gripping film noir. My only gripe is coming in at just over an hour It's short, it's it's good but I felt short changed even at sale price. I know criterion do good transfers but to dine collectors they can do no wrong. Personally I even think an 85 min film is short. The features are great as is the cover artwork. Just don't blink or next scene are the end credits ☺️
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Detour
..this movie is a must for film noir enthusiasts..its good to have it on blu-ray..
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A Fantastic Film
This really is a fabulous film in a nice package (as ever) from Criterion. Noir film fans - any film fan actually - needs to see it. Genuinely surprising and unsettling. The extras include a feature length documentary on the director Edgar Ulmer and a short feature on the excellent restoration.
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