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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.
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.
Ten Seconds To Hell (released in the UK as The Phoenix) is a 1959 British and West German film directed by Robert Aldrich, based on Lawrence P. Bachmann's novel The Phoenix. The Hammer Films / UFA joint production stars Jack Palance , Jeff Chandler and Martine Carol .
Shattered Innocence is a 1988 American made for television drama film directed by Sandor Stern and written by Thanet Richard and Sandor Stern. The film stars Jonna Lee, Melinda Dillon, John Pleshette, Kris Kamm, Ben Frank, Dennis Howard, Stephen Schnetzer, Richard Cox and Nadine van der Velde.
When Robert Aldrich’s 1968 Hollywood insider yarn, “The Legend of Lylah Clare” screens at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine, it will represent much more than a ...
It would be made by his production company, The Associates & Aldrich. [7] In October Aldrich announced the film would be part of a four-picture deal his company signed with ABC Pictures, the others being The Killing of Sister George (1968), (then uncompleted) The Greatest Mother of 'em All (1970), and Too Late the Hero (also 1970). [8]
Pamela Anderson is a fresh-faced beauty at the 2025 BAFTA Awards.. The actress, one of the night's presenters, walked the red carpet on Feb. 16 in a gorgeous off-the-shoulder white Jacquemus gown.
Aldrich says he was brought the story by Mel Frohman "and we stole the whole psychological drive and ending from Abe Polonsky's Body and Soul (1947)", a film on which Aldrich had been an assistant director. [9] Aldrich said the theme of that movie "was that the biggest damage you can suffer is the loss of self-esteem and a fall from grace. The ...