Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins

Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, often considered the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B—list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of fellow Austrian and German émigré directors like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak, and spent most of his career as an itinerant filmmaker earning modest paychecks for films frequently overlooked or forgotten. In this fascinating account of a career spent on the ma...