The 1950 + 60's experimental cinema drove forth an auteur-based appreciation supporting the unrecognized significance of limited production features. This encompassed some competent, and frequently marginal filmmakers who received iconic status in this obscure spotlight. Edgar G. Ulmer became the supportive claim for this theory. He started his versatile career designing sets for Max Reinhardt's stage productions in Vienna. Ulmer also assisted on  F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) and Faust (1926) and would co-direct the documentary "People on Sunday" in 1929. He permanently moved to Hollywood, California in 1930 working first as an art director for MGM where he then distinguished himself at the helm of horror classics like 1934's The Black Cat, frugal westerns (under the pseudonym John Warner) and became notable for his essential Film-noir's (Detour, Strange Illusion etc.). Many of his unforgettable sci-fi B-cinema obtained cult status thereby elevating him to receive the moniker "The master of B".

Suggested Reading

(click cover or title for more info)

Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir
by Arthur Lyons

Director - Selected filmography and DVDBeaver links:

 

The Amazing Transparent Man (1960), Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), Annibale (1960), The Perjurer (1959), Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957), The Naked Dawn (1955), Murder Is My Beat (1955), L'Amante di Paride (1954), Babes in Bagdad (1952), St. Benny the Dip (1951), The Man From Planet X (1951), Ruthless (1948), Carnegie Hall (1947), The Strange Woman (1946), Her Sister's Secret (1946), The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946), Detour (1945), Club Havana (1945), Strange Illusion (1945), Bluebeard (1944), Jive Junction (1943), Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943), Girls in Chains (1943), My Son, the Hero (1943), Tomorrow We Live (1942), Cloud in the Sky (1940), Goodbye, Mr. Germ (1940), The Light Ahead (1939), Let My People Live (1939), Moon Over Harlem (1939), The Singing Blacksmith (1938), Green Fields (1937), Thunder Over Texas (1934) (as John Warner), The Black Cat (1934), People on Sunday (1929)