Robert Aldrich

09.08.1918, Cranston, USA - 05.12.1983, Los Angeles, USA

 

Director

Robert Aldrich (August 9th , 1918, Cranston, USA – December 5th , 1983, Los Angeles, USA), was an American director and producer. In 1941 he started to work in the film company RKO, and soon rose from a clerk position to an assistant director and producer. In the early fifties he directed TV series and made his first feature film The Big Leaguer (1953). He attracted the critics’ attention with the western Apache (1954). Next he made Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), and Attack! (1956) that ensured him a place among the most respected American directors. He was the founder of the film company Aldrich and Associates, in which he made all his films until 1971. His most famous films are What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and The Grissom Gang (1971).

Filmography


Films by this director

Kiss Me Deadly

(1955)

Directed by: Robert Aldrich
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ernest Laszlo
Synopsis:

One late evening, private detective Mike Hammer stops his car for a beautiful blond hitchhiker. The girl wears just a raincoat. At first he thinks she must be a runaway lunatic, but when two killers intercept their way, he changes his opinion. Hammer helplessly watches how they torture the girl to death. He manages to escape and, dying for revenge he tries to uncover who stands behind the girl’s murder…

b/w, 35 mm, 105 min

The Longest Yard

(USA, 1974)

Directed by: Robert Aldrich
PHOTOGRAPHY: Joseph F. Biroc
Synopsis:

Paul Crewe is a football player who ends up in prison after he steals his rich girlfriend’s car, crashes it and assaults the police. The jail warden adores American football and persuades Paul to put together a team consisting of prisoners. Considering the fact that other prisoners do not respect Paul, this task becomes a challenge for him. Soon he manages to put together the team made up from notorious criminals and murderers…

color, 35 mm, 121 min

The Flight Of The Phoenix

(1965.)

Directed by: Robert Aldrich
PHOTOGRAPHY: Joseph F. Biroc
Synopsis:

A freight airplane with the pilot, navigator and ten passengers falls down in a desert after a sudden storm breaks their engines. The plane is damaged, two people die and one is severely injured, the radio does not work, and the only thing they can do is to wait for help. But the storm has diverted the plane from its original course and one of the passengers claims that he knows how to make a plane from the wreck… Richard Attenborough - biography

color, 35 mm, 142 min

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

(1964)

Directed by: Robert Aldrich
PHOTOGRAPHY: Joseph F. Biroc
Synopsis:

As a young woman, rich Charlotte Hollis was planning to elope with her lover, a married man John Mayhew. During a family party at a southern plantation owned by her parents, she found John murdered. Almost forty years later, she lives alone on that same plantation. She never leaves her home because everyone thinks she was the murderer. The only support she has is her housekeeper Velma. When the local authorities decide to build a road across her property, ghosts of past awaken. 

b/w, 35 mm, 133 min

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

(USA, 1962)

Directed by: Robert Aldrich
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ernest Haller
Synopsis:

Baby Jane Hudson rano je postala popularna, već u djetinjstvu kad je 1917. godine kao dječja vodviljska zvijezda s ocem nastupala u najprestižnijim kazalištima, kad su se prodavale lutke napravljene prema njezinu liku i kad je dobila prve filmske uloge. Za to vrijeme njezina sestra Blanche je Baby Jane zavidjela na uspjehu i živjela u njezinoj sjeni, tada sebi obećavši da će se kad odraste sestri osvetiti zbog nedostatka ljubavi i pažnje. Do promjene je došlo 1935. godine, k...

b/w, 134'
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