Detour
(DVD) 

Title from title frame.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.

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; 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.

Director of photography, Benjamin H. Kline ; editor, George McGuire ; art director, Edward C. Jewell ; music, Erdody.

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

"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.

DVD format, NTSC, region 1; 4:3 presentation; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital monaural.

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