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)

Mallory Flagg

 * [about Horace] Vic, he wasn't a man. He was a way of life.

Dialogue

 * 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: 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

 * Power...and Money Were His Gods!


 * Why must you destroy everyone who helps you?

Cast

 * 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