Edgar G. Ulmer Movies

List of the best Edgar G. Ulmer movies: The Black Cat(1934), Ruthless(1948), The Strange Woman(1946), The Naked Dawn(1955), Green Fields(1937), The Light Ahead(1939), Club Havana(1945), Strange Illusion(1945), Murder Is My Beat(1955), Bluebeard(1944), American Matchmaker(1940), St. Benny the Dip(1951) ... ...

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The Black Cat

American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

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Ruthless

A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.

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The Strange Woman

In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.

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The Naked Dawn

In Mexico, at the dawn of the automobile, modern bandit Santiago burglarizes train freight cars and falls in love with a poor farmer's wife.

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Green Fields

Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for... See full summary »

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The Light Ahead

In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young but poor lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.

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Club Havana

Edgar G. Ulmer directed this film about a number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

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Strange Illusion

Paul, a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange, recurring dream in which his mother falls in love with a dangerous man (... See full summary »

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Murder Is My Beat

A police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.

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Bluebeard

In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.

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American Matchmaker

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he... See full summary »

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St. Benny the Dip

A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.

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The Man From Planet X

As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.

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My Son, the Hero

A broken down boxing promoter finds that his son has become a hero fighting in the pacific and is about to come home for a war bond tour. Trouble is, he's been lying about how successful ... See full summary »

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The Loves of Three Queens

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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.

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Thunder Over Texas

A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.

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Moon Over Harlem

Musical numbers highlight this story of a wealthy widow who disowns her daughter after a new man enters her life.

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Hannibal

During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.

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Jive Junction

A young, classical-trained musician, Peter Crane, transfers from the Conservatory to Clinton High School, where he finds his music in conflict to that of the high school's world of jive and... See full summary »

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Tomorrow We Live

Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost (Ricardo ... See full summary »

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Girls in Chains

When a teacher loses her job because her brother-in-law is a racketeer, she takes a position at a girls' reformatory.

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Damaged Lives

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

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The Pirates of Capri

Neapolitans against Queen Carolina (Binnie Barnes) have an ally in her court, secret swashbuckler Captain Sirocco (Louis Hayward).

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The Amazing Transparent Man

A crook (Douglas Kennedy) decides to rob a bank instead of working for the mad scientist who made him invisible.

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Monsoon

A diver (John Carradine) and his partner fight a captain (Sidney Toler) and a purser for gold from their scuttled ship.

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Beyond the Time Barrier

A pilot crashes through the time barrier into the world of 2024, inhabited by the last remnants of civilization.

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