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Tag Archives: Edgar G. Ulmer
The Black Cat (1934) Edgar G. Ulmer, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adventure, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Honeymooning at Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison discuss their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but awful guy who’s returning to the stays of this town he defended prior to getting a prisoner of war for fifteen decades. Read More »
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961) Giuseppe Masini, Edgar G. Ulmer, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Haya Harareet, Georges Rivière, Adventure, Fantasy
A helicopter crashes in town, as well as the crew pops up at the underground city of Atlantis and have mixed up in a slave revolt. Read More »
Her Sisters Secret (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Drama
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean’s “Mardi Gras” celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. Read More »
Strange Illusion (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer, Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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The Naked Venus (1959) Edgar G. Ulmer, Patricia Conelle, Don Roberts, Arianne Ulmer, Drama
A young American painter and his French wife move with their small daughter to the US when the husband’s father dies. Read More »
The Naked Dawn (1955) Edgar G. Ulmer, Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Crime, Drama, Western, Action, Romance
Given a bigger budget than usual, cult director Edgar G. Ulmer rises to the occasion in The Naked Dawn. Filmed in Mexico, the story focuses on a poor but proud farmer named Manuel (Eugene Iglesias) and his wife Maria (Betta St. John). When glib-tongued drifter Santiago (Arthur Kennedy) tries to get Manuel mixed up in a train robbery, the farmer is at first resistant, but is goaded into joining Santiago by the covetous Maria. Corrupted by the prospect of untold wealth, Manuel begins plotting the murder of Santiago; meanwhile, Maria makes plans to bump off Manuel and run off with the handsome stranger. There’s a moral in all this, and Ulmer makes certain that we don’t miss it.
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Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) Edgar G. Ulmer, Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Ulmer, Romance, Sci-Fi
A pilot testing an experimental new rocket powered craft manages to fly into the future and land at the now deserted airbase he left. He ends up in a city with people who are suspicious he is a spy and who want to keep him to procreate with the rulers daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile. He manages to escape and return to his own time but ages dramatically.
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