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The Big Knife **** (1955, Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Everett Sloan, Ilka Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3405

Producer-director Robert Aldrich gets his big knife out to stab Tinseltown in the back. He fancies – and really relishes – the idea of biting the hand that feeds him in this sly and superlative […]

Feb, 24

Vera Cruz ***** (1954, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 2479

Director Robert Aldrich’s great 1954 Western features a standoff between great stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, representing the faces of good and evil, well, sort of. Cooper plays nice former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane, while Lancaster […]

May, 13

Kiss Me Deadly **** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 2209

Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir crime movie stars Ralph Meeker, who is on scalding form as Mickey Spillane’s private detective hero Mike Hammer. This first-rate Aldrich thriller is a hugely imaginative, ahead-of-its-time study in paranoia. […]

Feb, 23

The Flight of the Phoenix **** (1965, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1088

Producer/director Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix finds him on safe ground with a highly enjoyable and satisfying, character-driven disaster-survival movie, in which an aircraft is downed when a sudden sandstorm shuts […]

Apr, 13

The Dirty Dozen ***** (1967, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Robert Ryan, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 813

Robert Aldrich’s 1967 World War Two action movie The Dirty Dozen is a fondly remembered, often screened blockbuster smash-hit. It’s not a subtle film but it is a brilliantly exciting one, with an iconic cast. […]

Feb, 08

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte ***** (1964, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Victor Buono, Cecil Kellaway, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 737

The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  Director Robert Aldrich’s […]

Jan, 23

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ***** (1962, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 339

Joan Crawford: ‘You wouldn’t be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this [wheel]chair.’ Bette Davis: ‘Butcha ARE, Blanche, ya ARE !’ Finally together on screen, lifetime Hollywood arch-rivals […]

Jun, 18

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