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Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur [ 1 ] working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood , he directed mainly films noir , war movies , westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
Robert Aldrich announced the film in November 1960 as Two for Texas, based on a script by Teddi Sherman. The proposed stars were Lisa Kirk , Martine Carol and Aldo Ray . [ 4 ] Aldrich later said that he wrote the first draft of the script but "you could change that over and over and it was still a disaster."
Aldrich said "With the exception of Bette Davis, Gene is the best actor I've worked with. He's very intuitive, very bright." [8] Wilder also enjoyed working with Aldrich, calling the film Young Frankenstein Meets the Dirty Dozen and saying "the way he chooses to do a scene is the most artistic of any director I've ever worked with." [8]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 62%, based on 13 retrospectively collected reviews with an average rating of 6/10. [ 26 ] Roger Greenspun of The New York Times wrote, "Although committed to the notion that war is an inclusive system of betrayals, the film subverts that notion and settles instead for ...
Rotten Tomatoes reports that 97% of its critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 8.1/10, based on 37 reviews. The consensus states, "An intriguing, wonderfully subversive blend of art and commerce, Kiss Me Deadly is an influential noir classic."
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton.
The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American survival drama film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by English author Elleston Trevor. [3] The story follows a small group of men struggling to survive their aircraft's emergency landing in the Sahara .
However, the project stalled until September 1961, when Robert Aldrich came on board as director for producer Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures. Years earlier, Joan Crawford discussed with Aldrich the idea of starring in a movie with Bette Davis. The two struggled to find a suitable project until they agreed on an adaptation of Farrell's novel.