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Us 1948
Director: Edgar G. ULMER
Director Edgar G. Ulmer's complex psycho-melodrama is undoubtedly worthy of rediscovery. A flashback-structured tale of a sociopath's remorseless drive for station and wealth, Ruthless (often referred to as Ulmer's Citizen Kane) employs a relentless undercurrent of emotional violence. In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Ulmer described his feature as "a Jesuitic morality play a very bad indictment against 100 percent Americanism-as Upton Sinclair saw it." The film's chilling, malevolent tone is personified in a starkly muted performance by the lead-and frequent screen cad-Zachary Scott. (104 mins.)