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THE GREAT DIRECTOR’S CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #57 - The Films of ROBERT ALDRICH


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ROBERT ALDRICH

All the Marbles (1981)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
The Choirboys (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Hustle (1975)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
4 for Texas (1963)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
The Last Sunset (1961)
The Angry Hills (1959)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Attack (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
The Big Knife (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Apache (1954)
Big Leaguer (1953)
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Seen 25

All the Marbles (1981)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
The Choirboys (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Hustle (1975)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
4 for Texas (1963)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
The Last Sunset (1961)
The Angry Hills (1959)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Attack (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
The Big Knife (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Apache (1954)
Big Leaguer (1953)

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ROBERT ALDRICH

Seen: 6
Like: 1
Own: 1

Rank order:

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Attack (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Longest Yard (1974)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

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The Choirboys (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Hustle (1975)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
4 for Texas (1963)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Kiss Me Deadly (1957)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Apache (1954)

The only Aldrich film I saw at the cinema was The Longest Yard aka The Mean Machine.
Baby Jane I could only watch once, I'm not a fan of Joan Crawford or Bette Davis.

Sodom and Gommorah I've only ever seen a truncated 90min version on tv in full screen, would love to see it complete and in widescreen, Miklos Rozsa's score was the best thing about it.

Rankings

1)The Dirty Dozen (a 60's favorite)
2)The Longest Yard
3)Vera Cruz
4)Twilights Last Gleaming (where's the dvd?)
5)Too Late the Hero

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1. Kiss Me Deadly - A-
2. The Dirty Dozen - B+ (need to see this again as I watched a bit on TCM a couple of nights ago and was enjoying even more than I did the first time around)

Own: 0

Again, would like to see several of his - Attack, Baby Jane, The Longest Yard (even though the Sports Guy spoiled the ending in his column this week. My own fault for reading it) and Emperor of the North Pole.

2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318  Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B

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Rated from to
Titles in RED are theatrical screenings

Robert Aldrich
Aug 9, 1918 - Dec 5, 1983

All the Marbles (1981)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
The Choirboys (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Hustle (1975)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Killing of Sister George (1968) (Own the DVD)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
4 for Texas (1963)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) (Own both DVDs)
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
The Last Sunset (1961)
The Angry Hills (1959)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Attack (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
The Big Knife (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Apache (1954)
Big Leaguer (1953)

Seen 24
Own 2

       

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All the Marbles (1981)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
The Choirboys (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Hustle (1975)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
4 for Texas (1963)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
The Last Sunset (1961)
The Angry Hills (1959)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Attack (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
The Big Knife (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Apache (1954)
Big Leaguer (1953)


Bolded films I've seen.
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What's The Killing of Sister George, Bill? Never heard of it.

2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 318  Last Watched: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Last 7 Films Watched: Sugar - B+ / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - B / The Lower Depths - B / Downhill Racer - B+ / Whatever Works - B / The Legend of Jimmy the Greek - B

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It's a late 60's taboo-breaking drama about lesbianism that was rather notorious in its time.

Sister George is a TV soap-opera character played by the films star, Beryl Reid. The Sister George character is about to be killed off from the show, much against the wishes of Reid and mostly due to the fact that she's in her sixties and 'unappealing'.

Reid is a boisterous loudmouth, insulting everyone she meets, goes home and takes out her frustrations out on her younger female lover (Susannah York). To make matters worse, one of Reid's female bosses is also a lesbian and sets her sights on seducing Reid's lover.

Melodrama, lesbians, lesbian sex, cutthroat showbiz antics, acidic comedy and brassy old broads!

       

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The Dirty Dozen - 1/2
What ever happened to Baby Jane - - I hate 'thrillers' that are so retardedly plotted they depend on the 'good' characters having less cognitive ability than your average leaf of lettuce.
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In order of merit:


1.Kiss Me Deadly (1955) ***1/2
2.Vera Cruz (1954) ***1/2
3.The Dirty Dozen (1967) ***1/2
4.Attack (1956) ***
5.Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) ***
6.What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) ***
7.The Big Knife (1955) ***
8.The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ***
9.Emperor of the North Pole (1973) ***
10.Ulzana's Raid (1972) ***
11.Apache (1954) ***
12.The Grissom Gang (1971) ***
13.The Last Sunset (1961) ***
14.Autumn Leaves (1956) ***
15.The Longest Yard (1974) ***
16.4 For Texas (1963) ***
17.Too Late The Hero (1970) **1/2
18.Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) **1/2
19.Ten Seconds To Hell (1959) **1/2
20.The Angry Hills (1959) **1/2
21.All the Marbles (1981) **1/2
22.The Frisco Kid (1979) **1/2


I currently have THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (1968) and HUSTLE (1975) in my unwatched DVD-R pile.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
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Updated with Kiss Me Deadly (1957)
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Re: THE GREAT DIRECTOR’S CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #57 - The Films of ROBERT ALDRICH

The Dirty Dozen (1967) - 7/10
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) - 7/10
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - 9/10
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - 6/10
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The Choirboys (1977) 1/2
The Longest Yard (1974) 1/2
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
The Dirty Dozen (1967) 1/2
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) 1/2
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 1/2
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 1/2
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