RUTHLESS

Edgar G Ulmer's "Ruthless" is one of the greatest of all B-Movies; aficionados love it, others may have found it has slipped them by. It's a kind of Poverty Row "Citizen Kane"
with Zachary Scott excellent as the Kane character whose rise is told in flashback. Among those he steps on on his way up are Diana Lynn, (excellent in a dual role), Louis Hayward, Sydney Greenstreet, (magnificent), Martha Vickers and Lucille Bremer.

It's a remarkably intelligent film, one of the best American movies to deal with money and its pursuit, (and for a B-Movie it also handles the relationships between its characters with extraordinary finesse), and it's beautifully directed by Ulmer who may have been the greatest American director never to make it into the big time. It also looks like it cost a lot more than it obviously did and it has stood the test of time a lot better than many major studio pictures dealing with similar subjects. Seek this one out.