Robert Aldrich

...flicks all, are on BAM's lineup: John Ford's seemingly geriatric, then generally dismissed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Robert Aldrich's wildly popular, hence held as trash by the Crowthers of the world, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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...by the soldiers who must kill everyone impeding the establishment of empire. From his marriage to Harriet Foster (1941-1965), Robert Aldrich had four children, all of whom work in the movie business: Adell, William, Alida and Kelly. In...

In this article: Robert Burgess Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, Moses Brown School, University of Virginia, and Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

...knocking a red dress into shape. * * * ½, 1981, Warner, R, available from warnerarchive.com, $20 plus shipping Director Robert Aldrich was a spotty but frequently magnificent original whose most durable work included Kiss Me Deadly,...

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...our too-worshipful relationship to the soldiers of the "Greatest Generation. '' The sub-genre may not quite have begun with Robert Aldrich's 1967 "The Dirty Dozen. '' Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17'' is pretty unsentimental about its...

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...and the theme song from Paul Schrader's 1982 "Cat People" by Giorgio Moroder and David Bowie. If you mashed up the work of Robert Aldrich ("The Dirty Dozen"), Sergio Leone, Enzo G. Castellari's original "Inglorious Bastards" (1978)...

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...or another. ... Make a World War II movie that's just entertaining, that you just enjoy watching the movie." - "The Dirty Dozen" - Robert Aldrich's 1967 saga is the ultimate example of the men-on-a-mission war subgenre that inspired...

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...sent into enemy territory to confiscate German attack plans, who then run into a brutal SS commander played by Klaus Kinski. Robert Aldrich's 1967 classic "The Dirty Dozen" is one of the definitive "men on a mission" movies. Major Reisman...

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...film critic Matthew Sweet explains why dark, dangerous movies are back in vogue FEMME FATALE: Gaby Rodgers as Gabrielle in Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly Photo: Ronald Grant Archive The first thing you see is a pair of legs. They...

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...Italian version, have cameos in Tarantino's intentionally misspelled redo. The original "Bastards" -- which owes a debt to Robert Aldrich's "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) -- will unreel Friday and Saturday at midnight at the IFC Center, Sixth...

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...set to include screenings of more than a hundred films. Filmmakers and actors being paid tribute this year include the late Robert Aldrich; David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker; Robin Penn Wright; Andy Garcia; and Harrison Ford, who...

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