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Robert Aldrich - filmography
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
(1977)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning
Director: Robert Aldrich
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A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most ..read more »
 
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from 8 members
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The Longest Yard
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter, James Hampton
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's crowd-pleasing classic, Burt Reynolds stars as convict Paul Crewe, a former football player doing time in a prison controlled by two authoritarian sports fanatics, warden Hazen (Eddie Albert) and captain Knauer (Ed Lauter). When Crewe sees that the guards have a top-notch ..read more »
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from 1,309 member
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Emperor of the North
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Lee Marvin
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Shack (Borgnine) is a cruel railroad agent who makes it his personal mission to rid the world of hobos out for a free ride. Legendary tough-guy hobo A-1 (Marvin) vows to ride Shack's train to its destination and survive, which would earn him the title of "Emperor of the North Pole." A humorous game ..read more »
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from 261 members
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Ulzana's Raid
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Angered at their mistreatment by whites, a group of renegade Apaches escape from their reservation and embark on a rampage of murder, rape and destruction. A veteran army scout, McIntosh (Bruce Lancaster), and an unseasoned young cavalry officer, DeBuin (Bruce Davison), are assigned to track down ..read more »
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from 592 members
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The Grissom Gang
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Kim Darby, Tony Musante, Scott Wilson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Miss Blandish (Kim Darby), a young well-to-do heiress suffering from the emotional strain of overprotective parents, is kidnapped by a group of money-hungry thugs and thrust into a world of slums and poverty. As the Grissom Gang holds her for ransom, Miss Blandish begins a torrid love affair with ..read more »
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from 105 members
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Too Late The Hero
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's pulsating World War II thriller, Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specializing in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific theater to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission--knock ..read more »
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from 915 members
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The Killing Of Sister George
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Ronald Fraser
Director: Robert Aldrich
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When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces "They're going to murder me", her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flatmate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character Sister George, a lovable ..read more »
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from 1,273 member
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The Dirty Dozen
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Twelve jailbirds will earn their freedom...if they survive a suicide mission against the Nazi brass. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin leads a nothing-to-lose convict squad of Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and more in the all-time ..read more »
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from 5,696 members
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Bette Davis is an elderly Southern recluse slowly being driven mad. Fearing that her home may soon be demolished to make way for a new road, and at the same time exposing an ancient murder, her relatives start to gang up on her. What do they want? And why are they trying to convince her that she's mad?
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from 849 members
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The Flight Of The Phoenix
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's 'The Flight Of The Phoenix', based on Elleston Trevor's novel, a small plane carrying oil workers and military personnel crashes, stranding a group of survivors in the Sahara Desert. As the lethal heat and grating sand begin to take a toll on the group, the conscientious pilot, ..read more »
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from 2,024 members
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4 For Texas
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg
Director: Robert Aldrich
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When con men Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin) team up to open a gambling den, they quickly realize that business in the wild West isn't so easy. Both miscreant banker Harvey Burden (Victor Buono) and loose-cannon gunman Matson (Charles Bronson) are out to stifle Zack and ..read more »
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from 67 members
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Bette Davis plays former child star 'Baby' Jane Hudson who is taking care of her wheelchair bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), herself once a leading movie star whose career eclipsed her sister Jane when they became adults. Now both forgotten ageing relics of old Hollywood, the sisters live ..read more »
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from 32 members
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Baby Jane (Davis) was a child star. When she grows up she is forgotten by the public. Instead her sister Blanche (Crawford) becomes famous as a Hollywood actress, overshadowing her sister who is increasingly bitter. After a mysterious car accident cripples her, Blanche is left wheelchair-bound at ..read more »
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from 3,550 members
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The Last Sunset
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Hollywood legends Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas star on opposite sides of the law in this dramatic tale of justice and forbidden love. Sheriff Dana Stribling (Hudson) hunts down Brendan O'Malley (Douglas), a hot-headed but affable rogue charged with murder. O'Malley takes refuge in Mexico at the ..read more »
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from 10 members
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Attack
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen, William Smithers
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert) is a bombastic, but incompetent, military leader who jeopardizes the lives of the men under his control. His lapdog of a colonel (Lee Marvin) tries his best to sweep Cooney's errors under the rug, but soon the dastardly leaders have a problem on their hands in the form ..read more »
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from 533 members
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Kiss Me Deadly
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Detective Mike Hammer picks up a female hitchhiker, only to be run off the road by a pursuing car; when Hammer comes to, the girl is dead, and his investigation leads him to a mysterious briefcase and a deadly web of conspiracy...
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from 2,212 members
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The Big Knife
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey
Director: Robert Aldrich
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From acclaimed director Robert Aldrich [The Dirty Dozen, Kiss Me Deadly] comes this classic noir thriller, set in the darkest underbelly of Hollywood. Charles Castle [Jack Palance] has it all. With fame, talent, and devastating looks, he is the studio’s biggest star. But when disillusionment sets ..read more »
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from 158 members
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Apache
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, Paul Guilfoyle
Director: Robert Aldrich
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In Robert Aldrich's stirring film, an indominable Apache fighter, Massai (Burt Lancaster), refuses to accept the defeat of his people signaled by the surrender of his legendary chief, Geronimo (Monte Blue). Likewise, he will not swallow the pronouncement of a foe, Indian scout Al Sieber (John ..read more »
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from 346 members
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Vera Cruz
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Sarita Montiel, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Produced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the Mexican revolution of 1866, casts Coop and Lancaster as Ben Trane and Joe Erin, two rival soldiers of fortune who team to fight for the highest bidder. The two men come to ..read more »
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from 521 members
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Robert Aldrich facts
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