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Ruthless is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edgar George Ulmer released in USA on 16 april 1948 with Zachary Scott
Ruthless (1948)
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Add to a movie listRuthless is a 1948 drama film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and Louis Hayward.
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Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbors he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.Actors
Zachary Scott
(Horace Woodruff 'Woody' Vendig)
Louis Hayward
(Vic Lambdin)
Diana Lynn
(Martha Burnside / Mallory Flagg)
Sydney Greenstreet
(Buck Mansfield)
Lucille Bremer
(Christa Mansfield)
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