Ruthless Summary
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Genres: Drama
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Sharkishly handsome Zachary_Scott is right in his element in the Eagle-Lion melodrama Ruthless. Told in flashback, this is the story of the rise and fall of unscrupulous financier Horace Vendig (Scott). Hiding behind a veneer of respectability, Vendig steps on and rolls over anyone who stands in his way, including his lifelong friend Vic Lambdin (Louis_Hayward), utilities executive Buck Mansfield (Sydney_Greenstreet) and various and sundry women, among them Susan Duane (Martha_Vickers) and Christine Mansfield (Lucille_Bremer). Poor Diana_Lynn is subjected to Vendig's cruelties twice, in the dual role of Martha Burnside and Mallory Flagg. It is a tribute to the acting skills of Zachary_Scott that he makes his despicable character somehow likeable and, in the end, rather pathetic. Based on a novel by Dayton_Stoddart, Ruthless, like many Eagle-Lion films of its period, was topheavy with loaned-out Warner Bros. contract players. It was also one of the few big-budgeted projects helmed by "cult" director Edgar_G._Ulmer. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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