Edgar G. Ulmer Articles

Next at UCLA's Festival of Preservation at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood: On Wed., April 15, at 7:30 pm: Efraín Gutiérrez's Run, Tecato, Run (1979), described as a real-life inspired tale that "depicts a junkie's efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter." Actor-director Gutiérrez is expected to attend the screening. On Fri., April 17, at 7:30 pm: Lester [...]

Ann Savage, the actress who played an evil, unredeemable femme fatale who makes life hell for Tom Neal in the 1945 B-noir Detour (see clip), died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day from complications following a series of strokes. She was 87. Savage had a minor career in films of the 1940s, with Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour as her sole claim [...]