LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Robert Aldrich
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Synopsis: Scripted by Dalton Trumbo and directed by Robert Aldrich, this off-beat, almost eclectic film could be hailed as a thinking person's western. It is the dark cat-and-mouse tale of a sherrif's hunt forRead More
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Robert Aldrich is professor of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of numerous books including The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy and Colonialism and Homosexuality.
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In gay history, Aldrich is the author of The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy (1993). With Garry Wotherspoon, he edited a two-volume Who's Who in gay and lesbian history, published in 2001, that contains entries on almost a thousand figures of importance in the history of homosexuality in the Western world since Antiquity. Aldrich and Wotherspoon ... edited several collections of chapters on Australian gay history, which appeared between 1992 and 1998. Colonialism and Homosexuality (2003) brought together two of Aldrich’s fields of research, looking at the phenomenon of male homosexuality, primarily in the British and French empires, from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.
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Robert Aldrich had a 42 year career at the bar, primarily in Barnwell. When he was appointed a circuit judge in 1908, his first official act was a charge to the Grand Jury in Horry County. Judge Aldrich charged as follows:"We make the proud boast that in defense of South Carolina we stand ready with our lives and fortunes; and yet all these things are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals if we fail to make the people secure in their lives, their liberty and their property. The law is no respecter of persons; the law has one measure for all, and the time has come when we should alter the old political slogan and proclaim from the mountains to the sea that this is a good man's country, where every good man, white and black alike, can find a home, in fact as well as in name; where every good man can live and work and enjoy the fruits of his labor in tranquility and peace, and where every bad man must mend his ways or go elsewhere to pursue them."
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Whether a single image or a combination of images, there is a moment-- usually fairly early in an Aldrich film--which drastically changes the paradigm and ups the ante. In Ulzana's raid (USA 1972, a recasting of his earlier Apache; both films star Burt Lancaster, blindingly young in the first, shrewdly old in the second), white settlers are being gathered into the fort for protection from Apache raiders. A woman drives a wagon with her little boy; a single mounted trooper accompanies them. Hostile Indians appear. A flurry of tense close-ups of all concerned, finishing with the frightened woman, then the young trooper. He draws his pistol and fires.
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Mr. Aldrich was a pilot and was involved with the Winnipesaukee "Ice Out" for many years. He was a former member of the Laconia Kiwanis Club, The Laconia Rotary Club and was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow. He was a member of the Laconia Elks Lodge #876 for over fifty years and was a member of the Mount Lebanon Lodge No. 32 F. & A.M. for over fifty years. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and was a longtime member of the Winnipesaukee Shrine Club and was treasurer and secretary for twenty-six years. He was ... a member of the Bektash Shriners and was a member of the Valley of Nashua.
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