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Robert Aldrich
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In this thrilling drama directed by Robert Aldrich, when the body of a teenage girl who was moonlighting as a hustler is discovered, Lt. Phil Gaines (Burt Reynolds) is put on the case. The veteran cop believes he's found the perpetrator (Eddie Albert), but the clumsy efforts of the victim's father (Ben Johnson) to uncover the truth on his own may be making it more difficult and dangerous for Gaines to solve the crime. Catherine Deneuve co-stars.
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Robert Aldrich was a product of 19th Century America. He was born in Barnwell and was educated at the King's Mountain Military Institute in York, the Arsenal Academy in Columbia and the Citadel in Charleston.
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Personally, in marriage to Harriet Foster, Robert Aldrich had four children, all of whom work in the movie business: Adell Aldrich, William Aldrich, Alida Aldrich, and Kelly Aldrich. In 1965, after divorcing his first wife, Harriet, he married fashion model Sybille Siegfried.
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In this collection of interviews, Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Charles Bronson, Eddie Albert, and Burt Reynolds. As he speaks of them, of his on-going battles with censors, and of his audacious but failed attempt to create his own studio, he talks bluntly, sometimes ferociously, about struggling to make movies that accented his uncompromising view of life.
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Robert Aldrich teaches at the University of Sydney. He is the co-editor of a recently published two-volume Who's Who in gay and lesbian history, and author of the forthcoming Colonialism and Homosexuality (both Routledge).
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Robert Aldrich was born in 1917 to a Rhode Island banking family, related on his mother's side to the Rockefellers. His privileged youth led to a blue-ribbon university at which he devoted his energies to football, and to booking and promoting dance bands. During this period, he became interested in the movies. He directed thirty of them from 1953 to 1981. He died in 1983.
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