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…