Detour / PRC Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play and original story, Martin Goldsmith ; produced by Leon Fromkess ; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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"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 ni...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Detour (Motion picture : 1945)
Corporate Authors: Producers' Releasing Corporation (Presenter, Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972 (Film director)
Fromkess, Leon (Film producer)
Goldsmith, Martin M., 1913-1994 (Screenwriter)
Kline, Benjamin, 1894-1974 (director of photography.)
Erdody, Leo, 1888-1949 (composer (expression))
McGuire, George (Editor of moving image work)
Jewell, Edward C. (Art director)
Neal, Tom, 1914-1972 (Actor)
Savage, Ann, 1921-2008 (Actor)
Drake, Claudia (Actor)
MacDonald, Edmund (Actor)
Ryan, Tim, 1899-1956 (Actor)
Howard, Esther, 1892-1965 (Actor)
Gleason, Pat, 1904-1993 (Actor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Edition:DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 966.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships > United States > Drama.
Hitchhiking > United States > Drama.
Jazz musicians > United States > Drama.
False personation > Drama.
Extortion > Drama.
Extortion.
False personation.
Hitchhiking.
Jazz musicians.
Man-woman relationships.
United States.
Film noir.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Film adaptations.
Genre:
Drama.
Film noir.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Film adaptations.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm).
Format: Video DVD

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