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Date Posted: 19:31:07 01/13/10 Wed
Author: Tim
Subject: Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) was the burgeoning young director behind Universal's Karloff-Lugosi classic The Black Cat (1934). Unfortunately Ulmer's affair with the wife of Carl Laemmle's nephew resulted in him being permanently banned from the studio. He would spend the remainder of his career working on B-pictures for small studios, most notably the cult film Detour (1945) starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.

Some have speculated that if Ulmer had not been exiled from Universal he might have been the director assigned to such projects as Werewolf of London, The Raven and Dracula's Daughter. It certainly would have been interesting to see how these pictures (all fine films in their own right) would have tuned out with Edgar G. Ulmer behind the camera.

Tim

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[> Re: Edgar G. Ulmer -- Rick, 05:59:01 01/21/10 Thu [1]

One of many things Ulmer wanted in the 1934 film was a good musical score. Most talkies before this point had very little music and it didn't help the storyline. One of the first Universal sound films that had an almost continuous score was 'Bombay Mail' (1933), by Heinz Roemheld, and he went even further for 'The Black Cat'. He wrote a wall-to-wall score that is one of the first feature films to have an almost continuous music score. I have documented and researched all the tracks that are on the site.



Rick


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