Given the cast (Zachary Scott, Sidney Greenstreet, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Martha Vickers, Raymond Burr), the director (Edgar G. Ulmer), and the fact that there is a blu-ray version of the film (Olive Films, from 2013), it's a bit of a mystery why this one didn't make the cut. Given that RUTHLESS has long been viewed as a kind of variation on CITIZEN KANE, it would have been a sign of progamming chutzpah to have paired it with THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI...
Responses