Best known for the B-noir cult classic Detour (1945), Edgar G. Ulmer also directed this chilling psycho-melodrama. Ruthless follows a remorseless financier, played by Zachary Scott, as he swindles friends and associates on his rise to the top. With Sydney Greenstreet. (104 mins., 35mm)

Vitaphone Varieties highlights the "sound-on-disc" technology from the dawn of the sound era. Short films using this technique often featured popular musicians, actors, and vaudevillians of the day. (107 mins., 35mm)

Click here for info on a free lecture about Edgar G. Ulmer on October 14 at 4 PM in the Film/Video Theater.

Preservation of Ruthless funded by The Film Foundation and the Franco American Cultural Fund, a partnership of the Directors Guild of America; Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique; the Motion Picture Association of America; and the Writers Guild of America—West. Preservation of Vitaphone Varieties funded by the Library of Congress and UCLA, the American Film Institute/National Endowment for the Arts Film Preservation Grants Program, Hugh Hefner, and Robert G. Dixon.

Special thanks to Mimi Brody of the UCLA Film & Television Archive for organizing this tour.

Vitaphone Varieties will begin at 8:50 PM.