Issue 10 – First Release

Aldrich & Associates special section On 2 August 1998, the Aldrich & Associates symposium took place in Melbourne. Unusually, this event had no budget and no official or institutional status…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 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…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 Hardboiled private eye meller from the Mickey Spillane pen, featuring blood, action and sex for exploitable b.o.[1] To the critic the work of art is simply…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 In Robert Aldrich's The Angry Hills (USA 1959) - scripted, like Kiss Me Deadly (USA 1955), by A. I. Bezzerides - there is a rather odd and remarkable self-portrait offered…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 Robert Aldrich's oeuvre has been described as firmly situated in a "man's world, [where] the talk is rough, the camaraderie close, and the action violent and…

Cover Introduction When I first saw Jigsaw, a film released by United Artists in 1949, it reminded me strongly of Kiss Me Deadly, a film released by United Artists in 1955. My…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 As coincidence would have it, Robert Aldrich's western Vera Cruz and Robert Warshow's seminal essay on the genre, "Movie chronicle: the westerner" both appeared in 1954. [1] And…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 This essay discusses three Robert Aldrich films that deal with the worlds of film production. The first is The Big Knife (USA 1955), a bitter, hyper-real tragedy set…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 * All Movie Guide's review of Kiss me deadly http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:09:12|PM&p=avg&sql=A27523 * Classic Movies: the Golden Years: a good list of links to books about Aldrich, a filmography,…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 What gets people into the theatre to watch the rest of the picture? This scene [scene 176] does. The audience, knowing or unknowing, has been sitting…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 When Theodor Adorno happened to see one of Robert Aldrich's episodes of Four Star Playhouse (USA 1952-1956) about Willy Dante, gambler/club owner in the lineage of Bogart's Rick…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 When Robert Aldrich undertook to make a biblical epic in 1961, he had enough artistic successes under his belt (Kiss Me Deadly, USA 1955, Vera Cruz, USA 1954, The…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 The recent proliferation in the United States of shootings by adolescents of parents and peers has occasioned yet another ritual of moral hand wringing over the…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 Robert Aldrich is among the most important Hollywood filmmakers. His uncompromising assaults on the America of McCarthy and Nixon, while hardly endearing him to the Academy,…

Uploaded 30 June 2000 The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man's flesh shrinks away.…