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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
Certificate: 
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 11 members
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The Longest Yard
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Ed Lauter, Harry Caesar, Eddie Albert
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Burt Reynolds plays a prisoner, convicted for drunk driving, who organises an American football match between his fellow prisoners and the prison wardens. For the prisoners, the aim is to get revenge for the harsh treatment they have received; for the wardens, who have been told by the prison chief ..read more »
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from 1,346 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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Set in Oregon at the height of the Depression, the film concerns itself with a small community of tramps who ride the rails. Ernest Borgnine plays a sadistic railroad guard who vows to kill any man bumming rides on his train, and Lee Marvin is A-No.1, the hobo who cannot resist the challenge.
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from 298 members
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Ulzana's Raid
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison
Director: Robert Aldrich
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One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Set in Arizona during the late 1880s, the film begins with experienced scout McIntosh (Burt Lancaster) and idealistic U.S. Cavalry ..read more »
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from 624 members
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The Grissom Gang
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Robert Lansing, Tony Musante, Irene Daly
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Set in the American Mid-West during the years of the Great Depression, Robert Aldrich's adaptation of James Hadley Chase's notorious 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish' traces the spiral of violence which follows the kidnapping of society girl Barbara Blandish (Kim Darby) by Ma Grissom (Irene Dailey) ..read more »
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from 117 members
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Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?
(1969)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Richard Angarola, Robert Fuller
Director: Lee H. Katzin
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A succession of housekeepers have mysteriously disappeared from Claire Marrable's (Geraldine Page) employ. Alice Dimmock (Ruth Gordon) takes the position in an attempt to find out what happened to her dear friend and predecessor, Mrs Tinsley. Aided in her investigations by her nephew, Mike Darrah, ..read more »
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from 163 members
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Too Late The Hero
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Denholm Elliott, Lance Percival
Director: Robert Aldrich
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November, 1942. A US Navy task force in the South Pacific faces imminent destruction unless the Japanese radio base on a nearby island can be silenced. The Navy's solution is to order the hard-nosed Lieutenant Lawson (Cliff Robertson) to join a bunch of British misfits - including the mouthy Tosh ..read more »
60%
from 969 members
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The Killing Of Sister George
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina, Coral Browne
Director: Robert Aldrich
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June Buckridge (Beryl Reid), an ageing lesbian actress, finds her life falling apart after she both loses her job playing Sister George in a long-running television soap opera and discovers that her lover Childie (Susannah York) has fallen for TV executive Mercy Croft (Coral Browne). This leads to ..read more »
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from 1,348 member
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The Dirty Dozen
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Robert Ryan
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, ..read more »
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from 5,928 members
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The Flight Of The Phoenix
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for ..read more »
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from 2,097 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 74 members
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Victor Buono, Joan Crawford
Director: Robert Aldrich
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As a child, Baby Jane Hudson was the toast of vaudeville. As an adult, however, Baby Jane was overshadowed by her more talented sister, Blanche, who became a top movie star. Then, one night in the early '30s, came the accident, which crippled Blanche for life and which was blamed on a drunken, ..read more »
78%
from 3,784 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 »
84%
from 48 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 23 members
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Attack
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Ron McNeil, Eddie Albert, Robert Strauss
Director: Robert Aldrich
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A group of American soldiers find themselves trapped by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. The situation reaches a crisis point when their cowardly and indecisive captain (Eddie Albert) eventually flips into sheer panic. Angry at the lack of proper leadership, the platoon takes matters ..read more »
61%
from 553 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 182 members
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Kiss Me Deadly
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Paul Stewart, Marion Carr, Wesley Addy
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly stars Ralph Meeker as Spillane's anti-social private eye Mike Hammer. While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful ..read more »
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from 2,345 members
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Apache
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Guilfoyle, Jean Peters
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Burt Lancaster stars as Massai, the only Indian chief left undefeated after the surrender of Geronimo. Forced off his land, Massai is forced to fight for what he believes in, waging a one-man war against the US army until a child's cry causes him to question the use of violence. One of a number of ..read more »
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from 360 members
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Vera Cruz
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Sarita Montiel, Morris Ankrum, 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 542 members
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