Robert Aldrich
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Vera Cruz (1954)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster
- Humour and suspense reflect the uneasy alliance of Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster who collaborate to depose a corrupt Emperor in 1860s Mexico.
- Apache (1954)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire…
- Although now dated in it's treatment of the subject – like casting the blue–eyed Lancaster as an Apache Indian – at the time this…
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart…
- Ralph Meeker is Mike Hammer in this high–octane film noir, shamelessly blood–soaked in B–movie / pulp novel tradition. The…
- Big Knife, The (1955)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger…
- Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets.
Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a…
- Attack! (1956)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert
- Departing from the glory–day stories of WW2, Aldrich offers a hard–edged realism to the nightmare of war. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin and…
- Last Sunset, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone…
- Melodramatic Western set against the backdrop of the Texas/Mexico border stars Kirk Douglas as a fugitive hounded by Rock Hudson's sheriff, only to…
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono…
- Joan Crawford and Bette Davis scheme and brood in this memorable gothic melodrama about an aged child star and her embittered and jealous sister who…
- 4 For Texas (Four for Texas) (1963)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress…
- Frivolous comedy–western in which "Rat Pack–ers" Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin play friendly rivals who each make a bid for a waterfront…
- Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten
- Macabre shocks and bitter twists spike this outrageous gothic melodrama about an ageing, lonely Bette Davis disturbed by pressure from council…
- Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…
- One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
- Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson…
- A group of hardened criminals redeem themselves when recruited for a suicide mission during World War 2. An exciting adventure classic.
- Killing of Sister George (1968)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Beryl Reid
- While lesbian soap–opera actress Beryl Reid attempts to stop her character being 'killed–off', a tangled game of sexual politics is…
- Too Late The Hero (Suicide Run) (1970)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen…
- An impressive WW2 actioner from one of the experts, dir. Aldrich (ATTACK) investing a dangerous mission in the Pacific with a certain moral…
- Grissom Gang, The (1971)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante…
- Crime noir set in Missouri during the Depression, following the kidnapping of a priviledged meat heiress by notorious amateur hoodlums the Grissom…
- Ulzana's Raid (1972)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison
- Burt Lancaster saddles up to hunt a band of Apache Indians who have escaped their impoverished reservation and have gone on the warpath.
One of…
- Emperor of the North (1973)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine…
- Depression set actioner with Borgnine as a violent train conductor determined to prevent hobo Marvin bumming a ride.
- Longest Yard, The (1974)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert
- Long on black comedy and exciting action scenes, this prison–yard drama organises an American Football playoff between the prisoners (led by…
- Hustle (1975)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Eddie Albert…
- A case–hardened Los Angeles detective finds himself drawn into a dark, complex puzzle involving the death of a teenage girl, but his…
- Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning…
- A powerful political thriller following an American Air Force pilot (Burt Lancaster) who goes renegade, escaping from military prison and taking…
- Frisco Kid, The (1979)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder
- Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder cross joke–strewn terrain in this comedy Western.