Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. It was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith’s 1939 novel of the same name. In 1992, Detour was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The film, which today is in the public domain, was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2018. A Blu-Ray and DVD was released in March 2019 from the Criterion Collection.
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Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. It was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith’s 1939 novel of the same name. In 1992, Detour was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” The film, which today is in the public domain and freely available for viewing at various online sources, was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2018. A Blu-Ray and DVD was released in March 2019 from the Criterion Collection. The film opens in medias res with Al Roberts, an unemployed piano player, hitchhiking. Al later finds out that Haskell is wanted in connection to the murder of his wife, and returns to hitchhike again instead of contacting his girlfriend Sue Harvey, the nightclub’s lead singer, who had left to seek fame in Hollywood. In the film, Al gives up the idea of contacting Sue Harvey and instead gives up on his dream of becoming a successful pianist and becomes a police officer. The movie was released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid-20th-century Hollywood. The 4K restoration premiered in Los Angeles at the TCM Festival in April that year, and was released on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2015.
It is currently available on DVD and Blu- Ray from The Criterion collection, as well as at the iTunes Store. It has been released in the U.S. on DVD, Blu- ray, and VHS. and 3D, but not in the UK or Australia. It will be released in Australia on September 14, 2015. The UK release date is September 15, 2015, and the US release date will be September 16, 2016, and it will be on DVD on September 17, 2016. The U.K. release date for the UK release is September 18, 2017, but it will not be released on DVD or VHS until September 19, 2017. The US release dates for both releases are September 21, 2017 and September 28, 2018, and they will be the same day and the same week as the London release of The Godfather: Part II. The British release dates are September 23, 2018 and September 24, 2018. The United States release the film on September 25, 2018,. and the UK releases it on September 26, 2019, and on September 27, 2020, both on the Blu-Rays and the DVD of the British release are the same. The American release dates of September 27 and September 29, 2018 are also the same, but the release date of the UK version is September 30, 2019. They are both released on the same release date and the day of the London premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which was released the following day on the UK DVD.
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