Directed by:
Michael PalmScreenplay:
Michael PalmCinematography:
Joerg BurgerCast:
Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, John Saxon, Wim Wenders, William Schallert, Jimmy Lydon, Stefan Grissemann, Alexander Horwath (more)Plots(1)
Interest in Edgar G. Ulmer and his work was born gradually. The first films to win recognition were The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945) but others soon followed. The culmination of this revisionist view came in the first decade of the 21st century, with the publication of books by Gary Rhodes and Bernd Herzogenrath, the latter of whom even organized an international conference in Ulmer’s birthplace of Olomouc, attended by the director’s daughter Arianné Ulmer Cipes. As producer and one of the “talking heads,” she also participated in the feature documentary Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen. While the film fails to fill in all the white spaces in Ulmer’s biography (the director himself often obfuscated or spread untruths about himself), it works well as an introduction to his life and career. The documentary also features Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante and Roger Corman. (Noir Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Peter Bogdanovich
USA
Best movies:
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Opening Night (1977)
Targets (1968)
Roger Corman
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Joe Dante
USA
Best movies:
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Oscar (1991)
John Landis
USA
Best movies:
Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory (1995) (video compilation)
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
John Saxon
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Death Dealers (1976)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Wim Wenders
Best movies:
Kings of the Road (1976)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Summer in the City (1971)
William Schallert
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jimmy Lydon
USA
Best movies:
Life with Father (1947)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Island in the Sky (1953)
Ann Savage
USA
Best movies:
Detour (1945)
The More the Merrier (1943)
Fire with Fire (1986)
Peter Marshall
USA
Arianne Ulmer
USA
Edgar G. Ulmer (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
John Carradine (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Robert Clarke (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Band of Angels (1957)
Under the Tonto Rim (1947)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Margaret Field (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Carrie (1952)
The Big Clock (1948)
Boris Karloff (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Hedy Lamarr (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Come Live with Me (1941)
The Strange Woman (1946)