Detour

Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer

Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Roger Clark, Pat Gleason, Don Brodie

Key Features

• Format: Blu-ray / Restored
• Studio: Criterion Collection
• Catalogue No: CC3006BDUK
• Barcode: 5050629548631
• Main Language: English
• Region: Region B
• Release Date: 1 Apr 2019
• Originally Issued: 1945
• No of Discs: 1
• Weight: 120g
• Genre: Classic
• BBFC Cert: (PG) Parental Guidance
• Rental/Retail: Retail not for Rental
• Run Time: 69 minutes

Description

Director Edgar Ulmer's acclaimed film noir starring Tom Neal as Al Roberts, a piano player in a New York restaurant. His fiancée Sue (Claudia Drake) is a nightclub singer, desperate for fame. As Sue leaves for Hollywood, Al decides to follow her, hitching a lift with a drugged-up businessman (Edmund MacDonald) who dies during the journey.

Fearing that he will be blamed for the murder, Al buries the body, but events soon spiral out of his control.

Special Features

• Interactive Menus
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Interviews: Film scholar Noah Isenberg
• Making Of Documentary
• Other Documentary: 'Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen'

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