DVD & Blu-ray: DETOUR (1945) - Criterion Collection

Product Description: 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.

Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

Click the links below to jump directly
to the selected section:

Movie Details

Available Formats (Purchasing Links)

Video

Audio

Subtitles

Special Features & Extras

Trailer and Clips

Pictures

MOVIE DETAILS

JUMP BACK TO TOP

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake

Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Runtime: 68 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: March 19, 2019

AVAILABLE FORMATS (Purchasing Links)

JUMP BACK TO TOP

Blu-ray - Criterion Collection

DVD - The Criterion Collection

VIDEO

JUMP BACK TO TOP

DVD

Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Blu-ray

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

AUDIO

JUMP BACK TO TOP

Dubbed:

DVD: None
Blu-ray: None

Audio Formats:

DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

SUBTITLES

JUMP BACK TO TOP

DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

JUMP BACK TO TOP

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 program about the restoration of Detour
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito