This 75-minute doc covers a lot of engrossing and illuminating ground on the life and career of notorious B-movie maverick Edgar G. Ulmer. Among the folks interviewed are directors Roger Corman, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante, John Landis, and Peter Bogdonovich, film historians Tom Weaver and Gregory W. Mank, actors John Saxon and William Schallert, actress Ann Savage, and Ulmer's daughter Arianne, who has some especially poignant comments to make about her father (for example, she reveals that she saw her dad the most on film sets). Among the things we learn about Ulmer was that he was a nomad from the beginning, that he had a tendency to wildly embellish on the facts concerning his work in cinema, he made ethnic movies in New York City in the 1930's, he was at his happiest working for the low-budget outfit PRC, his films often have displaced figures as the main characters, his last picture "The Cavern" took fifteen years to get made, Ulmer had aspirations of being a big studio director, and he was paralyzed for the last five years of his life. Recommended viewing for Edgar Ulmer fans.
