Ruthless (film)
Ruthless is a 1948 film about an obsessive rich man who has the urge to gain more money.
- Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Written by Alvah Bessie, based on the novel Prelude to Night by Dayton Stoddart.
Power...and Money Were His Gods! (taglines)
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Mallory Flagg
[edit]- [about Horace] Vic, he wasn't a man. He was a way of life.
Buck Mansfield
[edit]- [sipping a drink] The wine of the country, my friend. Bourbon - a name given to kings and whiskey. The kings are gone, the liquor remains.
Dialogue
[edit]- Vic Lambdin: It's been a long time - a long time. But it doesn't seem long enough for all the things I can remember.
- Mallory Flagg: From what you've told me, this man gives one a lot of things to remember him by.
- Mrs. Burnside: [to a young Horace] Be brave. Be a man.
- Horace Vendig: I don't want to be a man. Never! I wish there weren't any men in the whole world.
Taglines
[edit]- Power...and Money Were His Gods!
- Why must you destroy everyone who helps you?
Cast
[edit]- Zachary Scott — Horace Vendig
- Louis Hayward — Vic Lambdin
- Diana Lynn — Martha / Mallory
- Sydney Greenstreet — Mansfield
- Lucille Bremer — Christa Mansfield
- Martha Vickers — Susan Duane
- Dennis Hoey — Mr. Burnside
- Edith Barrett — Mrs. Burnside
- Raymond Burr — Peter Vendig
- Joyce Arling — Kate Vendig
- Charles Evans — Bruce McDonald
- Robert "Bobby" J. Anderson — Horace as a Child
- Arthur Stone — Vic as a Child
- Ann Carter — Martha as a Child
- Edna Holland — Libby Sims
- Frederick Worlock — J. Norton Sims
- Claire Carleton — Bella
External links
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- Ruthless quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Ruthless at Allmovie