Road to ruin

A new docudrama charts the rise and fall of American carmaker John DeLorean

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN.

The ill-fated DeLorean sports car became a household name when it featured in the 1980s Back to the Future film franchise. So it’s perhaps no surprise that the life of the car’s inventor, John DeLorean, reads like something out of a Hollywood movie.

Mixing interviews with archive footage and dramatic reconstructions, with actor Alec Baldwin portraying DeLorean, Sky Documentaries’ Framing John DeLorean tells the dramatic story of the maverick American tycoon’s ambition and greed.

An inventor and engineer, DeLorean quickly worked his way up the ranks at carmaker General Motors (GM), developing Pontiac and Chevrolet models, before deciding to go it alone.