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Peter Falk
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He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Murder, Inc. and again for Pocketful of Miracles. Director William Friedkin said of Falks role in his film The Brinks Job and he could break your heart or he could make you laugh. Falk was the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award, in 1968, Falk starred with Gene Barry in a ninety-minute television movie about a highly skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of a series titled The NBC Mystery Movie, along with McCloud, McMillan & Wife. The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, Falk was everyones favorite rumpled television detective, wrote historian David Fantle. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk number 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline, an accountant and buyer. Both of his parents were Jewish, coming from Poland and Russia on his fathers side, and from Hungary, Falks right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma, he wore an artificial eye for most of his life. The artificial eye was the cause of his trademark squint, despite this limitation, as a boy he participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, Try this. I got such a laugh you wouldnt believe, Falks first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin. Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, after graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close. Rejected because of his eye, he joined the United States Merchant Marine. Falk said of the experience in 1997, There they dont care if youre blind or not, the only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldnt see very well, Falk recalls this period in his autobiography, A year on the water was enough for me, so I returned to college. After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College and he transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, which awarded him a bachelors degree in literature and political science in 1951. He then traveled in Europe and worked on a railroad in Yugoslavia for six months, Falk obtained a Master of Public Administration degree at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 1953. The program was designed to civil servants for the federal government
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Laurene Landon
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Laurene Landon is an American film and television actress. Laurene first began appearing in movies in the 1980s and she is best known for her roles in Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2, Hundra, Airplane II, The Sequel, and. All the Marbles with Peter Falk. She is half Irish and half Polish and describes herself as being bi-Polish, Landon was born on March 17,1957, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and moved to California with her parents at the age of four. So she decided to try her hand at acting and began her career as an extra in films, Landon began acting in a bit part in 1979s Bitter Heritage, also released as Naked in My Grave. She was cast as a skater in Roller Boogie in that same year. She gained a role in 1981s Full Moon High, her first of many collaborations with director Larry Cohen. Landon had spent part of her career as a model and in 1980 was a runner-up in the Miss Black Velvet pageant in Las Vegas. While there, a casting director told her to go see another casting director in Los Angeles, as she found modeling boring and was unable to sit still for hours at a time, she took his suggestion. She starred as Molly in. All the Marbles, a film starring Peter Falk that had an alternate title and she described this as her most satisfying role. She was chosen as one of the four women for the role and was required to undergo rigorous training at a professional wrestling school. The successful film was the last directing effort by Robert Aldrich, Landon went on to play Velda, right-hand woman to private eye Mike Hammer, in the 1982 film I, the Jury. She appeared as a stewardess in Airplane II, The Sequel and she is also known for appearing in science fiction and fantasy films such as Hundra, Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, and Maniac Cop. She has been offered subsequent roles in two film projects for Monolith, including Alien Vampz 2, the sequel to the first film. She also just completed Sky, starring opposite Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus and she is currently filming Future Punks, along with a starring role in Syndicate Smashers opposite Mel Novak. Landon is single and never married, citing Never met a man who wanted to me around with a mop. She also enjoys writing screenplays in her spare time, official website Laurene Landon at the Internet Movie Database Laurene Landon at Moviefone
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Burt Young
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Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, better known by his stage name Burt Young, is an American actor, painter and author. He is best known for his Academy Award–nominated role as Sylvester Stallones characters brother-in-law and he also had praised roles in The Gambler, Chinatown, Uncle Joe Shannon, Back to School, Once Upon a Time in America, and Convoy. Young was born in Queens, New York, the son of Josephine and Michael and he was trained by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Young is a widower and has one daughter, Anne Morea and he lives in Port Washington, New York. Young served a tour of duty in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959 and he is one of four actors who have appeared in all of the first six Rocky films. Young did not reprise his role in the 2015 film Creed, during this era, Young was considered one of Hollywoods top male actors. After appearing in the films Convoy, and Once Upon a Time in America, Young is a painter whose art has been displayed in galleries throughout the world. As an artist, he has collaborated with the writer Gabriele Tinti, for whom he designed the cover for the poetry collection All over, Young is also a published author whose works include two filmed screenplays and a 400-page historically based novel called Endings. He has written two plays, SOS and A Letter to Alicia and the New York City Government from a Man With a Bullet in His Head. In 2017, Burt Young will return to the stage as a mob boss in The Last Vig. The show is scheduled to run from January 14 to February 19,2017, Young participated in the 1984 New York City Marathon. Official website Burt Young at the Internet Movie Database
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Tracy Reed (American actress)
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Tracy Reed is an African-American actress. Reed was born in Fort Benning, Georgia and she starred in the 1970 TV series Barefoot in the Park and played Virginia Tyndall in the 1979 TV miniseries Women in White. Her most memorable roles include No Way Back, Car Wash, A Piece of the Action. All the Marbles. She was also a blackout gag player in the TV series Love, tracy Reed at the Internet Movie Database
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California and it is one of the worlds oldest film studios. In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, over the next thirty-nine years, the studio was bought and sold at various points in its history until, on November 3,2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MGM, is not currently affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1966, MGM was sold to Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman Sr. whose son Edgar Jr. would later buy Universal Studios, the studio continued to produce five to six films a year that were released through other studios, mostly United Artists. Kerkorian did, however, commit to increased production and a film library when he bought United Artists in 1981. MGM ramped up production, as well as keeping production going at UA. It also incurred significant amounts of debt to increase production, the studio took on additional debt as a series of owners took charge in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1986, Ted Turner bought MGM, but a few later, sold the company back to Kerkorian to recoup massive debt. The series of deals left MGM even more heavily in debt, MGM was bought by Pathé Communications in 1990, but Parretti lost control of Pathé and defaulted on the loans used to purchase the studio. The French banking conglomerate Crédit Lyonnais, the major creditor. Even more deeply in debt, MGM was purchased by a joint venture between Kerkorian, producer Frank Mancuso, and Australias Seven Network in 1996, the debt load from these and subsequent business deals negatively affected MGMs ability to survive as an independent motion picture studio. In 1924, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem and he had bought Metro Pictures Corporation in 1919 for a steady supply of films for his large Loews Theatres chain. With Loews lackluster assortment of Metro films, Loew purchased Goldwyn Pictures in 1924 to improve the quality, however, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York headquarters to oversee the 150 theaters. Mayer, Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 17,1924, Mayer became head of the renamed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Irving Thalberg as head of production. MGM produced more than 100 feature films in its first two years, in 1925, MGM released the extravagant and successful Ben-Hur, taking a $4.7 million profit that year, its first full year. Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loews passed to Nicholas Schenck, in 1929, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation bought the Loew familys holdings with Schencks assent. Mayer and Thalberg disagreed with the decision, Mayer was active in the California Republican Party and used his political connections to persuade the Justice Department to delay final approval of the deal on antitrust grounds
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Wrestling
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Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The sport can either be theatrical for entertainment, or genuinely competitive, a wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles. Wrestling techniques have incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems. The term wrestling is attested in late Old English, as wræstlunge, Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. The origins of wrestling go back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France, babylonian and Egyptian reliefs show wrestlers using most of the holds known in the present-day sport. Literary references to it occur as early as in the ancient Indian Vedas, the Iliad contains references, in which Homer recounts the Trojan War of the 13th or 12th century BC. Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata contain references to martial arts including wrestling, in ancient Greece wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature, wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, served as the focal sport of the ancient Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality, during the Middle Ages wrestling remained popular and enjoyed the patronage of many royal families, including those of France, Japan and England. Early European settlers in America brought a strong wrestling tradition with them if they came from England, the settlers also found wrestling to be popular among Native Americans. Amateur wrestling flourished throughout the years of the North American colonies and served as a popular activity at country fairs, holiday celebrations. The first organized national wrestling tournament took place in New York City in 1888, the international governing body for the sport, United World Wrestling, was established in 1912 in Antwerp, Belgium as the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. The 1st NCAA Wrestling Championships were also held in 1912, in Ames, USA Wrestling, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, became the national governing body of amateur wrestling in 1983. It conducts competitions for all age-levels, some of the earliest references to wrestling, can be found in wrestling mythology. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh established his credibility as a leader, after wrestling Enkidu, Greek mythology celebrates the rise of Zeus as ruler of the earth after a wrestling match with his father, Cronus. Both Heracles and Theseus were famous for their wrestling against man, the Mahabharata describes a malla-dwandwa between the accomplished wrestlers Bhima and Jarasandha. Rustam of the Shahnameh is regarded by Iranian pahlevans as the greatest wrestler, in Pharaonic Egypt, wrestling has been evidenced by documentation on tombs and Egyptian artwork. Greek wrestling was a form of martial art, at least in Ancient Greece
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Tag team
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Tag team wrestling is a type of professional wrestling in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may be made up of wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, in most team matches, only one competitor per team is allowed in the ring at a time. This status as the active or legal wrestler may be transferred by physical contact, the team-based match has been a mainstay of professional wrestling since the mid twentieth century, and most promotions have sanctioned a championship division for tag teams. g. A couple tag-teaming in an argument with another person, in 1901 the first tag team match was held in the United States, in San Francisco. San Francisco promoters introduced tag team wrestling as a way of improving the sport’s entertainment value, while tag team wrestling is now almost traditional in American professional wrestling, the innovation didnt become especially popular outside San Francisco until the 1930s. The first World tag team championship was also crowned in San Francisco in the early 1950s, typically, a tag team championship is awarded to and defended by team of two. In kayfabe, this made it difficult for challengers to prepare for their title fights. This was a gimmick, and is still utilized by other wrestling companies. The stipulation has become known as the freebird rule. A common storyline is former tag team partners turning on each other and this can be used when one member is being called on to develop a new gimmick. The basic tag team match has two teams of two facing off against each other. All standard rules for singles wrestling apply to a team match, however, only one wrestler from each team, called the legal man is allowed in the ring at a time. All other members of the team wait outside the ropes in the teams specified corner, only an active/legal wrestler is allowed to score a fall or have a fall scored against him/her. But any wrestler, legal or outside, may face disqualification for himself or his team for violating rules, once a tag is made, the wrestler tagging out has a grace period to leave the ring before risking disqualification. The wrestler outside the ring must be touching the tag rope tied in the corner, tags are legal as long as the two team members touch. The referee has to see and/or hear the contact between the two wrestlers in order for the tag to be legal. As the ultimate authority over the match, a referee may overlook any of these at his discretion, in some multi-man tag matches in lucha libre, a wrestler can make himself the teams legal man simply by setting foot in the ring, and his partner then leaves. This allows for action to become nearly continuous, two referees, one stationed inside the ring and one on the floor, are employed to maintain order for this type of match
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Pittsburgh Steelers
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers compete in the National Football League, as a club of the leagues American Football Conference North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC, Pittsburgh has won more Super Bowl titles and hosted more conference championship games than any other NFL team. The Steelers have won 8 AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos and they share the record for most conference championship games played in with the San Francisco 49ers. The Steelers share the record for second most Super Bowl appearances with the Broncos, and Dallas Cowboys, the Steelers lost their most recent championship appearance, Super Bowl XLV, on February 6,2011. The Steelers were founded as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8,1933, by Art Rooney, taking its name from the baseball team of the same name. The ownership of the Steelers has remained within the Rooney family since its founding, the current owner is Arts son, Dan Rooney, who has given much control of the franchise to his son Art Rooney II. The Steelers enjoy a large, widespread fanbase nicknamed Steeler Nation, the Steelers currently play their home games at Heinz Field on Pittsburghs North Side in the North Shore neighborhood, which also hosts the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Built in 2001, the stadium replaced Three Rivers Stadium which hosted the Steelers for 31 seasons, prior to Three Rivers, the Steelers had played their games in Pitt Stadium and Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL first took to the field as the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 20,1933, through the 1930s, the Pirates never finished higher than second place in their division, or with a record better than.500. Prior to the 1940 season, the Pirates renamed themselves the Steelers, during World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises to field a team, during the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the Phil-Pitt Eagles and were known as the Steagles. In 1944, they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as Card-Pitt and this team finished 0–10, marking the only winless team in franchise history. The Steelers made the playoffs for the first time in 1947 and this forced a tie-breaking playoff game at Forbes Field, which the Steelers lost 21–0. The Steelers also received a $3 million relocation fee, which was a windfall for them, the Steelers history of bad luck changed with the hiring of coach Chuck Noll for the 1969 season. The Pittsburgh Steelers 1974 draft was their best ever, no team has ever drafted four future Hall of Famers in one year. They also enjoyed a regular season streak of 49 consecutive wins against teams that would finish with a record that year. The Steelers suffered a rash of injuries in the 1980 season, the 1981 season was no better, with an 8–8 showing
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Joe Greene
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Charles Edward Greene, better known as Mean Joe Greene, is a former American football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League from 1969 to 1981. He was noted for his leadership, fierce competitiveness, and intimidating style of play for which he earned his nickname, Greene attended North Texas State University, where he earned consensus All-America honors as a senior for the North Texas State Mean Green football team. He was drafted by the Steelers fourth overall in the 1969 NFL Draft and made an impact with the team. Greene is credited with providing the foundation upon which Steelers coach Chuck Noll turned the franchise into a sports dynasty. He was the cornerstone of the Steel Curtain defense that led Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl championships in a six-year span, throughout his career, Greene was one of the most dominant defensive players in the NFL, overpowering opposing offensive linemen with ease. Former teammate Andy Russell called Greene unquestionably the NFLs best player in the seventies and he is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, and his number 75 jersey is retired by both the North Texas football team and the Steelers. Greene is also known for his appearance in the Hey Kid. Coca-Cola commercial in 1979, which aired during Super Bowl XIV, charles Edward Greene was born September 24,1946, in Elgin, Texas. He played high school football at Dunbar High School in Temple, despite Greenes talents, the Dunbar Panthers had a mediocre record, and he was not heavily recruited by colleges. His options were limited due to segregation of the Southwest Conference. He was eventually offered a scholarship to college football at North Texas State University. He led the team to a 23–5–1 record during his three seasons, in his 29 games at defensive tackle, North Texas State held the opposition to 2,507 yards gained on 1,276 rushes, a per-carry average of less than two yards per attempt. Greene was a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference selection and his college coach, Rod Rust, said of Greene, There are two factors behind Joes success. First, he has the ability to make the big defensive play, second, he has the speed to be an excellent pursuit player. A pro scout said, Hes tough and mean and comes to hit people, while sources agree the name is a reference to North Texas athletics teams, the Mean Green, there are conflicting accounts as to how, when, and why Greene received his Mean Greene nickname. When he first arrived at North Texas, the moniker was the Eagles. In 1966, Greenes first year on the varsity team, the team adopted the Mean Green moniker, two possible origins of the nickname are two separate cheers that supposedly developed independently during North Texas 1966 game against UTEP. One cheer was by Sidney Sue Graham, wife of the North Texas sports information director, in response to a tackle by Greene, she blurted out, That’s the way, Mean Greene
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Kathleen Turner
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Mary Kathleen Turner, better known as Kathleen Turner, is an American film and stage actress and director. Known for her raspy voice, Turner has won two Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award. Turner came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in Body Heat, Crimes of Passion, Romancing the Stone, and Prizzis Honor, the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Turner has also done work as a voice actress, namely as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as Monster House. Turner has also taught acting classes at New York University, Turner was born June 19,1954, in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy and Allen Richard Turner, a U. S. Foreign Service officer who grew up in China and she has a sister, Susan, and two brothers. So when I was performing in school, he would drive my mom, shed come out at intermissions and tell him, Shes doing very well. Owing to her fathers employment in the Foreign Service, Turner grew up abroad and her father died of a coronary thrombosis that same year, and then the family moved back to the United States. At age 19, Turner began volunteering at a local Planned Parenthood office and she attended Missouri State University in Springfield for two years, then studied theater at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977. During that period, Turner acted in productions directed by the film. In 1977, Turner made her debut in the NBC daytime soap The Doctors as the second Nola Dancy Aldrich. She made her debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in the thriller Body Heat. Empire Magazine cited the film in 1995 when it named her one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History, the New York Times wrote in 2005 that, propelled by her jaw-dropping movie debut Body Heat. She built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality born of robust physicality, Turner ultimately became one of the top box office draws, and most sought-after actresses of the 1980s and early 1990s. The brazen quality of Turners screen roles was reflected in her public life, with her deep voice, Turner was often compared to a young Lauren Bacall. When the two met, Turner reportedly introduced herself by saying, Hi, Im the young you. In the 1980s, she boasted that on a night when I feel really good about myself, I can walk into a room, and if a man doesnt look at me, hes probably gay. Several months after moving to New York City in 1977, Turner took over the lead in Michael Zetters play Mister T
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Mildred Burke
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Mildred Bliss, better known by the ring name Mildred Burke, was an American professional wrestler. Burke is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame as a Legacy inductee and her heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the NWA World Womens Championship for almost twenty years. Burke started out in 1935, wrestling men at carnivals and she was managed by her second husband, promoter Billy Wolfe. Mildred Burke, aged 15, began to work as a waitress on the Zuni Indian Reservation in Gallup and she lived there for three years, before leaving for Kansas City after agreeing to marry her boyfriend. He took her to a wrestling event, which sparked her interest in the sport. Burke, who was pregnant at the time, later persevered, prior to wrestling, she was an office stenographer by day, had outstanding muscle development, and was hoping to become a professional wrestler. Locally, Billy Wolfe was training aspiring women professional wrestlers, at first, Wolfe did not want to train Burke and instructed a male wrestler to body slam her, so she would stop asking Wolfe to train her. Burke, however, performed a body slam on the man instead, Wolfe tutored her and realized that she was the prospect for which he was waiting. The close proximity of their training resulted in a relationship and ultimately marriage, changing her name to Mildred Burke, she defeated Clara Mortenson for the Womens World Championship in January 1937. In the 1930s, Burke wrestled over 200 men, but only lost to one of them, despite the riches that her husband earned as a promoter of women grapplers, there was a dark side to their marriage. On the road, Wolfe stood as a figure to the women he trained and managed. Their marriage was not monogamous, as Wolfe enjoyed the companionship of women with whom he traveled, tensions emanated from the extramarital activity and in 1952, Wolfe and Burke went their own ways. Burke found herself out of professional wrestling among all National Wrestling Alliance channels. Desperate, Burke decided to consult Jack Pfefer for help, the NWA attempted to reconcile the couple, but the only agreed upon solution was that one would sell out to the other. Burke volunteered to sell to Wolfe for Burkes Attractions, Inc. went into bankruptcy, eight months later, Hoff named Wolfe as administrator and was approved by Franklin County Judge William Bryant. A memorandum dated August 20,1953, was circulated by Wolfe, in which he announced that he was the booker for Burke. The claim was disputed by Burke on August 26,1953 and it was emphasized that her contract prohibited Wolfe from competing in wrestling and was in breach of the binding agreement. She consulted with Leroy McGuirk and hoped that she would be vindicated by the NWA at their September 1953 meeting in Chicago, Burke faced many obstacles, as women were banned from yearly NWA conferences, and this diminished the importance of women in professional wrestling
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Reno, Nevada
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Reno is a city in the U. S. state of Nevada. It is in Northern Nevada, approximately 22 miles from Lake Tahoe, known as The Biggest Little City in the World, Reno is famous for its casinos and as the birthplace of Caesars Entertainment Corporation. It is the county seat of Washoe County, in the part of the state. The city sits in a desert at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. Archaeological finds place the border for the prehistoric Martis people in the Reno area. As early as the mid 1850s a few settled in the Truckee Meadows. Gold was discovered in the vicinity of Virginia City in 1850, and a modest mining community developed, to provide the necessary connection between Virginia City and the California Trail, Charles W. Fuller built a log toll bridge across the Truckee River in 1859. A small community that would service travelers soon grew up near the bridge, after two years, Fuller sold the bridge to Myron C. Lake, who continued to develop the community with the addition of a grist mill, kiln, in 1864, Washoe County was consolidated with Roop County, and Lakes Crossing became the largest town in the county. Lake had earned himself the founder of Reno. Lake deeded land to the CPRR in exchange for its promise to build a depot at Lakes Crossing, once the railroad station was established, the town of Reno officially came into being on May 9,1868. CPRR construction superintendent Charles Crocker named the community after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, in 1871, Reno became the county seat of the newly expanded Washoe County, replacing the previous county seat, located in Washoe City. However, political power in Nevada remained with the communities, first Virginia City and later Tonopah. The extension of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad to Reno in 1872 provided a boost to the new citys economy. Despite this, Nevada is still the third-largest gold producer in the world, after South Africa and Australia, the Reno Arch was erected on Virginia Street in 1926 to promote the upcoming Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927. The arch included the words Nevadas Transcontinental Highways Exposition and the dates of the exposition. After the exposition, the Reno City Council decided to keep the arch as a permanent downtown gateway, no acceptable slogan was received until a $100 prize was offered, and G. A. Burns of Sacramento was declared the winner on March 14,1929, with Reno, The Biggest Little City in the World
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Richard Jaeckel
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Richard Hanley Jaeckel was an American actor of film and television. Jaeckel became a well known actor in his career, which spanned six decades. He was honored with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the 1971 adaptation of Ken Keseys Sometimes a Great Notion, Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, tough guy, he played a variety of characters during his fifty years in movies and television, Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of seventeen while he was employed as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. A casting director auditioned him for a key role in the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary, Jaeckel won the role and settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts. He served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1944 to 1949, one of Jaeckels shortest film roles was in The Gunfighter, in which his character is killed by Gregory Pecks character in the opening scene. He played the role of Turk, the boyfriend, in the Academy Award-winning 1952 film Come Back, Little Sheba, with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster. In 1960, he appeared as Angus Pierce in the western, Flaming Star and he played Lee Marvins able second-in-command, Sgt. Bowren, in the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen for director Robert Aldrich, Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films, including Attack, Ulzanas Raid, and Twilights Last Gleaming. Jaeckel also guest-starred on many programs, one episode of Bonanza Between Heaven. He was also cast as a boxer in a 1954 episode of Reed Hadleys CBS legal drama, The Public Defender. In 1954, Jaeckel portrayed Billy the Kid in an episode of the western anthology series, Stories of the Century. In the storyline, Denver and Billy are thrown out of Lincoln, New Mexico, for persistent brawling, garrett vows to see the survivor of the match hanged if the other dies. During their journey, the two decide they have much in common, as Billy nurses Denver back to health after Denver breaks a leg. In 1957, he appeared as Mort Claffey in two episodes, Paratroop Padre and The Light, of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. That same year, he portrayed Lieutenant Bradshaw in War of the Whale Boats of the military drama, in 1956 and 1957, he appeared in three episodes of another military drama, The West Point Story. In 1955 and 1958, Jaeckel appeared in different roles on two episodes of CBSs fantasy drama, The Millionaire, in 1958, Jaeckel guest starred as Webb Martin in the episode The Bloodline of NBCs western series Cimarron City. That same year, he appeared in the drama of the American Civil War
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John Hancock (actor)
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John Hancock was an American film and television actor. Born in Hazen, Arkansas, Hancock is possibly best remembered for his role as Scotty in the ABC miniseries Roots, The Next Generations. His large size and distinctive bass voice allowed him to establish a niche playing authority figures and he was working with Susan Dey on the CBS sitcom Love & War as the bartender Ike Johnson in 1992, when he died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. Hancocks characters death was written into the series and he was replaced by actor Charlie Robinson. Hancock was interred in the Devotion section, at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, John Hancock at the Internet Movie Database John Hancock at Memory Alpha
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Big Leaguer
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Big Leaguer is a 1953 film. It starred Edward G. Robinson and was the first film directed by Robert Aldrich, although this story is fiction, Robinsons character in it, Hans Lobert, was an actual baseball player who played for five Major League Baseball teams and managed the Philadelphia Phillies. Third-billed in the cast, Jeff Richards was a professional ballplayer before he became an actor, john Hans Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for baseballs New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22-year-old hopefuls to pick the best for a league contract. All have dreams and talent, but the elimination whittles them down to a few who will get the $150-a-month contract. Loberts niece comes down from the office in New York and finds herself attracted to one of the players. Little Joe Polachuk Bing Russell Harv Tomter, himself According to MGM records the film earned $467,000 in the US and Canada and $92,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $163,000. Big Leaguer at the Internet Movie Database Big Leaguer at AllMovie
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World for Ransom
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World for Ransom is a 1954 film noir drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, who was uncredited for his work. Many of the actors and sets used in the film were from the Dan Duryea television show China Smith, Duryea, Patric Knowles, Gene Lockhart, Reginald Denny, and Nigel Bruce starred in the film. Aldrich and cinematographer Joseph Biroc also worked on the series, mike Callahan is an Irish émigré and war veteran working in Singapore as a private detective. He takes on a case from a flame, now a nightclub singer. She thinks her husband Julian March is involved in criminal activities, Callahan learns that a man named Alexis Pederas has involved Julian in a plot to kidnap a prominent nuclear scientist Sean OConnor and hold him for ransom to the highest bidder. OConnor is one of the men in the world that knows how to detonate the H-Bomb. When the film was released, film critic Bosley Crowther was negative about the film but appreciated the actors, writing, Nothing gives it distinction, some day he may learn how. Aldrich was upset with censors for lifting the scene where Duryea learns his love interest is a lesbian and he could forgive her love for other men, but not with other women. The 1950s wasnt ready for such relationships, at least not in films, nevertheless, this was a compelling film doing a fantastic job exploring the uncertainty of partnerships and the indeterminate nature of trust. World for Ransom at the Internet Movie Database World for Ransom at AllMovie World for Ransom at the TCM Movie Database
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Apache (film)
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Apache is a 1954 Western film starring Burt Lancaster. Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation, on the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though and it was originally budgeted at $742,000. The film was a big hit, earning over $3 million in its first year of release, the film currently has a 75% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Whitewashing in film Apache at the Internet Movie Database Apache at the TCM Movie Database
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Vera Cruz (film)
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Vera Cruz is a 1954 American Western theatrical film starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and featuring Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Jack Elam. The movie was directed by Robert Aldrich from a story by Borden Chase, during the Franco-Mexican War, ex-Confederate soldier Ben Trane travels to Mexico seeking a job as a mercenary. He falls in with Joe Erin, a gunslinger who heads a gang of cutthroats. Trane uses a compliment to the Countess to get the Emperor to double it, during a river crossing, Trane and Erin noticed that the stagecoach in which the countess is traveling is extremely heavy. Erin later discovers that the stagecoach contains six cases of gold coins, first Trane and then the countess discover him looking at the gold. The countess informs them that it is worth $3 million which is being transported to pay for troops for Maximilians French army and they form an uneasy alliance to steal and split the gold. Unfortunately for their plans, the Marquis was listening from the shadows, also involved in the mix is General Ramírez a heroic Juarista leader. He and the other Juarista leaders soon suspect that there is more to the expedition than the Countess, eventually, the rest of Erins group also learn that something suspicious is going on and they demand to be let in on the secret. The different groups, including Juarista secret agent Nina, conspire to steal the gold for their own purposes, alliances are formed, quickly dissolved and others are formed. A ruse is successful in getting the gold to Veracruz where the Juarista troops attack the French in a battle over the ownership of the gold. Erin attempts to steal the gold for himself by getting the countess to reveal the location of the ship she had hired to transport the gold, however, Trane arrives in time to stop him. In the end, Trane and Erin face off in a showdown that concludes with Erins death, Trane leaves the gold and walks through the dead bodies from the battle while the wives and mothers of the Juarista troops search among the dead and wounded for their loved ones. The movie was a big hit in France. Vera Cruz was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on April 1st,2003 and you Cant Win Em All, a 1970 film with a similar plot set in the Greco-Turkish War. Vera Cruz at the Internet Movie Database Vera Cruz at the TCM Movie Database Vera Cruz at AllMovie
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Kiss Me Deadly
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Kiss Me Deadly is an 1955 film noir, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, that stars Ralph Meeker. The screenplay was written by A. I, Bezzerides, based on the Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer mystery novel Kiss Me, Deadly. The film was released by United Artists Kiss Me Deadly grossed $726,000 in the United States, the film also withstood scrutiny from the Kefauver Commission, which called it a film designed to ruin young viewers, leading director Aldrich to protest the Commissions conclusions. Kiss Me Deadly marked the debuts of the actresses Cloris Leachman. Kiss Me Deadly is often considered a classic of the noir genre, in 1999, Kiss Me Deadly was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Ralph Meeker plays Mike Hammer, a tough Los Angeles private eye who is almost as brutal as the crooks he chases, Mike and his assistant/secretary/lover, Velda, usually work on penny-ante divorce cases. One evening on a country road, Hammer gives a ride to Christina. She has escaped from an institution, most probably the nearby Camarillo State Mental Hospital. Thugs waylay them and Hammer awakens in some unknown location where he hears Christina screaming and being tortured to death, the thugs then push Hammers car off a cliff with Christinas body and an unconscious Hammer inside. Hammer next awakens in a hospital with Velda by his bedside and he decides to pursue the case, for vengeance, a sense of guilt, and because she must be connected with something big behind it all. The twisting plot takes Hammer to the apartment of Lily Carver, Lily tells Hammer she has gone into hiding and asks Hammer to protect her. It turns out that she is after a box that. The great whatsit, as Velda calls it, at the center of Hammers quest is a small, mysterious valise that is hot to the touch and contains a dangerous, glowing substance. Later, at a beach house, Hammer finds Lily. Velda is their hostage, tied up in a bedroom, Soberin and Gabrielle are vying for the contents of the box. Gabrielle shoots Soberin, believing that she can keep the contents for herself. She also shoots and wounds Hammer, who manages to find Velda, as Gabrielle slyly opens the case, it is ultimately revealed to be stolen radionuclide material, which reaches explosive criticality when the box is fully opened. Horrifying sounds emanate from the material as Gabrielle and the house burst into flames, just as Hammer
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The Big Knife
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The Big Knife is a 1955 film noir directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the 1949 play by Clifford Odets. The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ilka Chase, Charlie Castle, a very successful Hollywood actor, lives in a huge home. But his wife Marion is on the verge of leaving him, on his wifes advice, Castle is adamantly refusing to renew his contract, which enrages Stanley Shriner Hoff, his powerful studio boss. Castle wants to be free from the grip on his life. Hoff and his right-hand man Smiley Coy have knowledge of a accident in which Castle was involved. Hoff is willing to do anything to make the sign a seven-year renewal. He wants to win back his wife, who has been proposed to by Hank Teagle. And he longs to do more inspiring work than the schlock films Hoff makes him do, but the studio chiefs blackmail works and Charlie signs the new contract. Feeling sorry for himself, the side of his nature causes Castle to have a fling with Connie, the flirtatious wife of his friend Buddy Bliss. When a struggling starlet named Dixie Evans threatens to reveal what she knows about the crash, Hoff and they try to involve Castle in their sinister plot and even extort Charlies wife, secretly recording her conversations with the new man in her life. That is the last straw for Castle, who defies the ruthless men who employ him. However, having betrayed a friend, lost the woman he loves and sacrificed his integrity and he has a hot bath drawn, gets into it and ends his own life. He wrote, Actually, it looks as though The Big Knife originally was written and aimed as an angry and they picture a group of sordid people jawing at one another violently. But their drama arrives at a defeatist climax, and this viewer, for one, was not convinced. Film critic Jeff Stafford analyzed some of the elements, and wrote, none. can match the negative depiction of the movie business. Wins Venice Film Festival, Silver Lion, Robert Aldrich,1955, nominations Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion, Robert Aldrich,1955 The Big Knife premiered on Broadway at the National Theatre on February 24,1949 and closed on May 28,1949 after 109 performances. Directed by Lee Strasberg, the play starred John Garfield as Charles Castle, the first Broadway revival opened at the American Airlines Theatre on April 16,2013, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, directed by Doug Hughes and starring Bobby Cannavale and Richard Kind. The Big Knife was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on April 1,2003 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD
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Autumn Leaves (film)
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Autumn Leaves is a 1956 American drama film by Columbia Pictures starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson in an older woman/younger man tale of mental illness. The screenplay was written by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler, though it was credited to Jack Jevne, Rouverol, the film was directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by William Goetz. Aldrich won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival, spinsterish Millicent Millie Wetherby works at home as a self-employed typist. One evening in a diner, she meets a lonely Army veteran named Burt Hanson and they share a romantic date at the beach, kissing amidst the crashing waves, but Millie tells Burt to date someone his own age. A month later, Burt is waiting for the still-lonely Millie at her home and he proposes to her in a movie theater, and while she initially rejects the proposal, she reconsiders when she sees him walking away. The next day, the couple married in Mexico. However, on the license, he lists his place of birth as Chicago, though he had earlier told her he was born in Racine. Once home, Burts ex-wife, Virginia, appears, which shocks Millie because Burt told her that he had never been married, Virginia gives her a property settlement that she wants Burt to sign and tells her that Burt is a habitual liar about his life and his past. Millie also learns that Burts father is in Los Angeles to find him, Burt is haunted by the day when he discovered his wife and father making love, he begins displaying signs of mental instability with their sudden, unwelcomed presence in his life. When he becomes violent, Millie sends him to a mental hospital, Burts condition improves with treatment, and he severs connections with his past. Millie happily discovers he loves her and they look forward to a brighter future. Coles rendition is used over the title sequence. The songs original title is Les feuilles mortes with music by Joseph Kosma, english lyrics were written by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer. The song was introduced by Yves Montand in the French feature film Les Portes de la Nuit, Autumn Leaves was a modest box-office success, chiefly among Crawfords female fans. The actress thought highly of the film, deeming it the best older woman/younger man movie ever made, the cast was perfect, the script was good, and I think Bob handled everything well. I really think Cliff did a job, another actor might have been spitting out his lines and chewing the scenery. I think the movie on a whole was a lot better than some of the romantic movies I did in the past. and it was eclipsed by the picture I did with Bette Davis. The film has grown in stature among Aldrich fans since its 1956 premiere and is now regarded as one of the directors best films, dan Callahan of Slant Magazine wrote, All of Aldrichs early work is intriguing, but Autumn Leaves is his secret gem
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Attack (1956 film)
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Attack, also known as Attack. is a 1956 American anti-war drama film. It was directed by Robert Aldrich and starred Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, William Smithers, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen, as the official trailer put it, Not every gun is pointed at the enemy. The film won the 1956 Italian Film Critics Award, europe 1944, Fragile Fox is a company of the US National Guard based in a Belgian town near the front line. They are led by Capt. Erskine Cooney, who appears to be better at handling red tape than combat, Cooney freezes under fire and cannot bring himself to send more men into battle to reinforce those already under attack. The increasing and unnecessary loss of life caused by Cooneys actions is lowering unit morale, the executive officer, Lt. Harold Woodruff, is the voice of reason who tries to keep the peace between Cooney and Costa. Woodruff tries to get Cooney reassigned to a desk job, the judges influence could be very useful to Bartletts post-war political ambitions. When the Germans launch the Battle of the Bulge, Bartlett orders Cooney to seize the town of La Nelle, unsure whether the Germans are there or not, Cooney overrules an all-out attack and decides that Costa should lead a reconnaissance mission. Costa agrees, provided that both Cooney and Woodruff promise to send reinforcements if necessary, as the platoon approaches La Nelle, the men come under fire--the town, as it turns out, is strongly held by German troops backed up by mortars and tanks. Most of Costas squad is killed or wounded and he and the survivors take refuge in a farmhouse. When Costa calls for reinforcements, Cooney ignores his request and begins drinking, Costa and his men capture a German SS officer and a soldier, but when tanks start shelling the house, he has no choice but to retreat. He furiously tells Woodruff over the radio to warn Cooney that hes coming back, in the confusion Costa goes missing in action. The rest of the men manage to get back to town, the men show their contempt for Cooney. Bartlett reprimands Cooney for failing to send in his company to take La Nelle. As a result, the Germans are advancing on their position, he tells Woodruff, Bartlett threatens to arrest Cooney if he falls back, as it would leave another company unprotected and the Germans would be able to roll up the entire front line. When Cooney begs to be reassigned, an enraged Bartlett strikes him, with the pressure building up inside him, Cooney turns to drink again, but Woodruff smashes the bottle. After that, Cooney has a mental breakdown, feeling sorry for him, Woodruff tells him to sleep it off and is about to assume command when Costa suddenly reappears, determined to kill Cooney. As they argue, they are told by Cpl, Jackson that the town is being overrun. Costa disables an enemy tank with a bazooka, but is wounded when another tank he disables drives over his arm
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Ten Seconds to Hell
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Ten Seconds To Hell is a 1959 British and West German film directed by Robert Aldrich and based upon Lawrence P. Bachmanns novel, The Phoenix. The Hammer Films/UFA joint production stars Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler and their fatalistic duties lead them to form a macabre pact, they donate a part of their individual paychecks into a pool that those still surviving at the end of three months divide the money. Eventually, only two men are left, and they are both in love with the same woman, Robert Aldrichs direction is noted for its meticulous attention to the techniques of bomb deactivation and disposal. Delighted by the position, Karl bets Eric that he will outlive him. Although initially taken aback by the wager, the men soon agree that half of their salaries will go to the survivors of the dangerous mission in three months time. The British provide the men new uniforms and equipment, and assign Frau Bauer as their liaison, Karl volunteers to lead the unit, but the men vote for the reluctant Eric instead. Later, Karl and Eric move into an Allied-approved boarding house run by pretty young widow Margot Hoefler, several weeks go by in which the men successfully and safely defuse numerous bombs, then the men are stunned when young Globke is killed while defusing a British 1000-pound bomb. Suspecting that the bomb has double fuses, Eric asks Haven to request information from British armaments on its design, at the boardinghouse, Karl continually flirts with Margot, to Erics annoyance. One evening when Margot loudly protests Karls drunken advances, Eric bursts into Margots room to help her and Karl retreats, when Eric remains critical, Margot accuses him of denying his own desires. A few days later, Frau Bauer receives a report that Tillig has been trapped under a bomb by the partial collapse of a ruined building. With the other men away on assignments, Eric and Karl race to the site, after Eric defuses the bomb safely, a doctor arrives and upon examining Tillig declares there is no chance for his survival. Refusing to accept the pronouncement, Eric hurries outside to request equipment to lift the bomb, but as Karl expresses his doubts, the building collapses on Tillig, distraught, Eric returns to the boardinghouse where he seeks solace from Margot. The next day, Eric takes Margot to another ruined section of the city, Eric struggles to conceal his growing feelings for Margot, admitting that he is confused about becoming romantically involved while his life is in danger daily. Back at headquarters, Haven tells Eric that because of the post-war chaos, when Haven discloses that he knows of Erics former profession, Karl, unaware that his colleague was an esteemed architect, expresses surprise. Eric tells Haven that he was forced into demolitions when he fell into disfavor for making political statements. Karl and the men were all pressed into demolitions as punishment for some indiscretion. Mocking Erics growing anxiety, Karl urges him to quit the unit and give up the wager, a month before the wagers deadline, Sulke is killed while defusing a double fused bomb. Eric, Loeffler and the men agree to adhere to the terms of the wager but discuss giving the salaries to Sulkes widow, when Eric presents the proposal to Karl, he scoffs at the suggestion, explaining that his motto has always been to look after himself
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The Last Sunset (film)
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The Last Sunset is a 1961 American Western film directed Robert Aldrich starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, and Dorothy Malone. The film was released by Universal Studios, shot in Eastman color, the screenplay by Dalton Trumbo was adapted from Howard Rigsbys novel Sundown at Crazy Horse. The supporting cast includes Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand, brendan OMalley crosses the border into Mexico to escape justice for a murder. He arrives at the ranch of a lover, Belle Breckenridge and her husband. He is immediately attracted to Missy, who reminds him of Belle when they were years ago. Breckenridge, meanwhile, hires OMalley to drive his herd to Texas, sheriff Dana Stribling is pursuing OMalley. He arrives at the ranchero to serve a warrant for the murder of his brother-in-law, Stribling does not have jurisdiction to arrest OMalley in Mexico so he also agrees to join the cattle drive to Texas. He promises to deliver OMalley to the law upon their arrival, during the cattle drive some former Confederates confront Breckenridge in a bar and accuse him of cowardice during a battle in the Civil War. Although Stribling and OMalley team up to try and save Breckenridges life, Breckinridge is shot in the back, Stribling and OMalley respond by shooting the man who shot Breckinridge, and then bury Breckinridge back at the cattle drive camp. Along the journey, Stribling and Belle become attracted to other and plan to marry. On the eve of the showdown between the two men, Belle discloses the secret that Missy is the daughter of OMalley and their incestuous love cannot continue, at the gunfight, OMalley faces the sheriff with an unloaded gun, effectively committing suicide
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Sodom and Gomorrah (1962 film)
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Sodom and Gomorrah — known in the USA as The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah — is a 1962 epic film which is loosely based on the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah. The film was a Franco-Italian-American co-production made by Pathé, SGC and it was directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by Maurizio Lodi-Fe, Goffredo Lombardo and Joseph E. Levine. The film has a time of 155 minutes. The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah prosper because of their deposits of salt. The decadent citizens, who have become wealthy by trading salt, live in luxury and use slaves as servants and for violent games of entertainment. After a night of revelry, Astorath, the Prince of Sodom, tells slave girl Tamar to carry a message to the king of the Elamites, with whom he plans to overthrow his sister, Bera, Queen of Sodom. Returning from her meeting in the desert with the Elamite leader, Queen Bera demands the name of her co-conspirator. Tamar refuses to speak under interrogation and Bera has her and her two sisters killed. Meanwhile, Lot leads his family and a Hebrew tribe through the desert, by contrast with the people of the twin cities the Hebrews are presented as a pious and austere people with high moral standards. As the Hebrews approach their destination, Lot meets the beautiful Ildith, Lot assumes that Ildith owns these women. She tells him that she is also a slave, albeit the chief of the Queen of Sodoms body slaves, Lot tells her that owning slaves is evil. The following dialog ensues, Ildith, Evil, where I come from, nothing is evil. Everything that gives pleasure is good, Lot, Where do you come from. Once Lot and his people reach the Jordan, he negotiates the use of the land on one side of the river with Queen Bera, in a surprising turn, she gives Lot Ildith, who does not wish to leave the queen and her life of luxury in Sodom. Astorath is disgusted and baffled by his sisters easy terms with the Hebrews, however, he soon turns his attentions to Lots flirtatious daughter, Shuah. Ildith dislikes the rough conditions of the Hebrew camp, but soon becomes a friend to Lots daughters and she and Lot also fall in love and plan to marry. Love also blooms elsewhere in the camp as Shuah and Prince Astorath begin a secret affair, Lots other daughter, Maleb and his headstrong lieutenant, Ishmael also plan a marriage. Lot and Ildiths wedding day celebrations are interrupted by an Elamite attack, although the Hebrew farmers and the Sodomite soldiers fight valiantly, they are nearly defeated by the fierce nomadic warriors
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the 1960 novel of the name by Henry Farrell. Upon the films release, it was met with critical and box office acclaim and was later nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design, Black. The intensely bitter Hollywood rivalry between the two stars, Davis and Crawford, was heavily important to the films initial success. This in part led to the revitalization of the careers of the two stars. In the years after release, critics continued to acclaim the film for its psychologically driven black comedy, camp, the films then unheard of and controversial plot meant that it originally received an X rating in the UK. Because of the appeal of the stars, Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times has identified it as being a cult classic. In 2003 the character of Baby Jane Hudson was ranked #44 on the American Film Institutes list of the 50 Best Villains of American Cinema, in 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is an adored yet ill-tempered vaudevillian child star while her older sister Blanche lives in her shadow. By 1935, their fortunes have reversed, Blanche is a film actress. One night, Jane mocks Blanche at a party, prompting Blanche to run away in tears and that same night, Blanche is paralyzed from the waist down in a mysterious car accident that is unofficially blamed on Jane, who is found three days later in a drunken stupor. In 1962 a wheelchair-bound Blanche and Jane are living together in Blanches mansion, by now, Jane has descended into alcoholism and mental illness and treats Blanche with cruelty to punish her for stealing her spotlight. Later, when Blanche informs Jane she may be selling the house, during an argument, she removes the telephone from Blanches bedroom, cutting Blanche off from the outside world. Later, Jane begins denying Blanche food, until she serves Blanche her dead bird on a platter, Bates, by writing a note pleading for help and throwing it out her bedroom window. Jane returns in time to notice the note and prevents Mrs. Bates from seeing it, when Jane reads the note, the two sisters quarrel again. When Blanches cleaning lady Elvira Stitt comes to clean the house, Jane pays her and gives her the day off, meanwhile, Edwin Flagg sees Janes newspaper advertisement and arrives at the mansion, where Jane hires him. While Jane drives Edwin home, Blanche searches the house for food, desperate for help, Blanche crawls down the stairs and calls their doctor, telling him of Janes erratic behavior and begging him to come to the house. Jane returns in time to find Blanche on the phone and beats her unconscious before imitating her voice over the phone and she then binds and gags Blanche and locks her back in her upstairs bedroom. Elvira, still suspicious of Jane, returns the next day, before she can rescue her, however, Jane beats Elvira to death with a hammer and disposes of her body
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4 for Texas
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The film was written by Teddi Sherman and Robert Aldrich, who also directed. Later, in Galveston, Thomas and Jarrett become rivals in a bid to open a waterfront casino, each has a new romantic attachment as well, with the beauties Elya and Maxine, respectively. They eventually must join forces to hold off the villainous Matson, the film was announced in 1960 as Two for Texas. The role of Elya was originally intended for Sophia Loren who had worked with Sinatra in The Pride. Although she was offered $1,000,000 for four weeks of work,4 for Texas was filmed in 1.85,1 aspect ratio on 35-millimeter Technicolor film. Its promotional trailer features Ursula Andress in specially shot footage addressing the audience, the film had its U. S. premiere on December 18,1963. Forty-three years after its premiere,4 for Texas was presented at the Turin Film Festival on November 12,2006. Its first DVD release arrived on November 20,2001 and the release was on June 13,2006. It was nominated for the Golden Laurel as Top Action Drama, list of American films of 19634 for Texas at the Internet Movie Database 4 for Texas at AllMovie 4 for Texas at the TCM Movie Database
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)
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The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American drama film starring James Stewart, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, and based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor. The story describes several men struggling to survive their aircrafts emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, the ensemble cast includes Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea and George Kennedy as other passengers on the aircraft. Though the film was a failure at the box office, it has gained a cult following. Frank Towns is the pilot of a twin-engine Fairchild C-82 Packet cargo plane flying from Jaghbub to Benghazi in Libya, lew Moran is the navigator while the passengers are Capt. Harris and Sgt. Watson of the British Army, Dr. Renaud, a physician, Heinrich Dorfmann, as the aircraft careens to a stop, several oil drums and oil drilling tools break loose and severely injure Gabriels leg. With all onboard communications equipment rendered inoperable, the survivors are forced to wait to be rescued, although they have a large quantity of dates for food, they calculate their water will last for only ten to fifteen days, provided they avoid physical exertion. Harris and Carlos attempt to walk to an oasis, Carlos leaves his monkey behind with the men. Harris and Towns refuse to let Cobb go along due to his mental health. Days later, Harris returns to the site alone and barely alive. Meanwhile, Dorfmann has been working on an idea, He believes they can build a new aircraft from the wreckage. The C-82 has twin booms extending rearwards from each engine and connected by the horizontal stabilizer, Harris and Moran believe he is either joking or delusional, and the animosity between Towns the veteran pilot and Dorfmann the aircraft designer increases. Post-World War II anti-German sentiment also simmers under the surface, the struggle is complicated by a personality clash between Towns, who is a proud old traditionalist aviator, and Dorfmann, a young, equally-proud technician. Moran, a man suffering from alcoholism, struggles to keep the peace. Although Towns is resistant, Renaud points out that activity and any hope will keep the morale up. Dorfmann supervises as the cut, haul and weld parts of the aircraft. Towns is doubtful that the plans will succeed, during the work, Gabriel commits suicide by slitting his wrist with a knife. The men are so depressed by the loss they contemplate giving up the new planes construction, things seem even bleaker when Towns discovers that Dorfmann has taken extra rations of water. His explanation is that he alone has been working continuously, however, Dorfmann promises to not do so again if they all work equally hard
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The Dirty Dozen
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The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin. The film is based on E. M. Nathansons novel of the name that was inspired by a real-life group called the Filthy Thirteen. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 65 on their 100 Years, in Britain, in the spring of 1944, Allied forces are preparing for the D-Day invasion. Among them are Major John Reisman, an OSS officer, his commander, Regular Army Major General Sam Worden, early in the film, the personalities of the three men are shown to clash and the characters of the individualistic Reisman and the domineering Breed are established. Reisman is aided by his friend, the mild-mannered Major Max Armbruster, Major Reisman is assigned an unusual and top-secret mission, code-named Operation Amnesty. Those who survive the mission will be pardoned and returned to duty at their former ranks. However, as Reisman repeatedly tells the men, few of them will be coming back from this one, Reisman is assigned 12 convicts, all either serving lengthy sentences or awaiting execution. J. Under the supervision of Reisman and MP Sergeant Bowren, the group begins training, after being forced to construct their own living quarters, the 12 men are trained in combat by Reisman and gradually learn how to operate as a group. For parachute training, they are sent to the operated by Colonel Breed. Under strict orders to keep their secret, Reismans men run afoul of Breed and his troops, especially after Pinkley - under Reismans orders - poses as a general. Angered at the usurpation of his authority, Breed attempts to discover Reismans mission by having two of his men attack Wladislaw in the latrine, but they are knocked out by Posey and Jefferson. The 12 men think Reisman sent them until Breed and his men investigate the Dirty Dozens camp, Reisman, who had been away when Breed and his paratroopers arrived, infiltrates his own post and opens fire on the paratroops as the convicts jump them. They disarm the paratroops, Colonel Breed is ordered to take his men and leave, Denton, siding with Breed, insists that Reisman has exceeded his authority and urges General Worden to terminate Operation Amnesty. Reisman rises ferociously to the defense of his men, pointing out they had crammed six months of training into as many weeks, Major Armbruster suggests a test that would show whether Reismans men are ready. During practice maneuvers in which Breed will be taking part, the Dirty Dozen will attempt to capture the Colonels headquarters. During the maneuvers, the men use various tactics, including theft, impersonation. This proves to General Worden that Reismans men can be used for the mission, the night of the raid, the men are flown to France, and practice a rhyme they have learned which details their roles in the operation. A slight snag occurs, when landing in a tree, one of the dozen, Jiminez, breaks his neck and dies, but as trained
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
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The Legend of Lylah Clare is a 1968 American drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Robert Aldrich. The film stars Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, the film was based on a 1962 DuPont Show of the Week TV drama co-written by Wild in the Streets creator Robert Thom. Although Aldrichs previous 1960s efforts were praised by critics, Lylah Clare opened to negative reviews, agent Bart Langner finds Elsa Brinkmann, a would-be actress who looks and sounds just like Lylah Clare, a flamboyant star who fell to her death in suspicious circumstances 20 years ago. He persuades arrogant director Lewis Zarkan, who had married to Lylah. The two men then convince brash studio head Barney Sheean, who is struck, to back a picture with her as Lylah. As filming continues, her identification with her rôle gets more intense and she also begins to fall in love with Zarkan, who is happy to sleep with her but his priority is to get his film finished. By the last day of shooting, her personality seems to have merged with that of the outrageous Lylah whose fatal fall, to antagonise him, she first lets him find her in bed with the gardener. Then, as he directs her in a scene, she leaps to her death from the high-wire. The resulting publicity makes his film a huge success, a final sequence suggests that the world of Hollywood is literally one of dog eats dog. Director Robert Aldrich chose the script to film to fulfill his contract with M-G-M and he initially wanted Jeanne Moreau or María Félix to star in the film but when it became clear that Moreau and Félix were unavailable, Kim Novak was cast. Novak hadnt made a film in three years, partly because she had been involved in an accident and because she had lost interest in working. Aldrich was initially thrilled with the idea of Novak in the role stating that she was a mixture of ice and fire. At various times, Aldrich blamed Novaks performance and bad editing for the films failure, in later years, Aldrich said that he was to blame for the films failure and that blaming Novak was. pretty unfair. To make this work, to make Lylah work, you had to be carried along into that myth. You can blame it on a lot of things, but Im the producer, Im responsible for not communicating that to the audience. The film received poor reviews and performed poorly at the box office. The film critic for Newsweek magazine stated that The Legend of Lylah Clare fights clichés with clichés, pauline Kael wrote, there are groans of dejection at The Legend of Lylah Clare, with, now and then, a desperate little titter. The Legend of Lylah Clare was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on October 4,2011, via the Warner Archive DVD-on-demand system sold through Amazon
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Too Late the Hero (film)
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In the 1942 Pacific War theater of World War II, Lieutenant Sam Lawson, USN, is a Japanese language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat. His commanding officer unexpectedly cancels his leave and informs Lawson that he is to be assigned to a British infantry commando unit in the New Hebrides Islands for a combat mission. The British base is in the middle of an open field, several hundred yards from the edge of the jungle, on the other side of the jungle is a Japanese observation. Shortly after Lawsons arrival at the base, a patrol of British soldiers sprint out of the jungle and across the open field, pursued by the Japanese. The base commander, Col. Thompson, instructs his men to keep back, out of enemy range. The posts radio operator transmits an alls well signal every night at midnight, the commando group is led by Captain Hornsby, an upper class officer who apparently has a history of foolhardiness. When Johnstone is wounded in another encounter, Hornsby leaves him behind, shortly thereafter, Johnstone is discovered by the Japanese, after Scott drops and breaks the radio Lawson was to use, Hornsby decides to use the Japanese radio. Lawson flatly refuses to part in any such scheme, giving the excuse that Hornsby is disobeying their orders with this extemporization. Nevertheless, Hornsby walks boldly into the Japanese camp and enters the radio hut without being spotted, he knocks out the operator and motions to Lawson. Scott goes to the hut, but despite Toshs urgings, Lawson refuses to go, the Japanese radio operator comes to, and in the ensuing fracas, both Scott and Hornsby are killed. Lawson is now the officer, with only Tosh, Campbell, Jock, Griffiths. Japanese Major Yamaguchi is determined to stop them from reporting the existence of the secret Japanese airfield, through loudspeakers in the trees, Yamaguchi exhorts the men to give themselves up. Lawson and Tosh agree that Yamaguchi is not to be trusted, but Campbell is favour of surrender, finally, while Lawson and Tosh are asleep, Campbell tries to sneak off into the jungle, but Jock spots him and asks where hes going. Campbell strangles Jock, wakes Griffiths and McLean, and the three of them run off, Yamaguchi attempts to use the lives of Griffiths and McLean as bargaining chips. Tosh suggests that they give Yamaguchi a taste of his own medicine and they double back and shoot him. They then sprint out across the field, despite cover fire from the base, first one, then the other is hit. One of them rises and staggers to safety, when Colonel Thompson asks who the other man was, Tosh replies, A hero. He killed fifteen Japs single-handed — thirty, if you like, Tosh Hearne Cliff Robertson as Lt. Sam Lawson Ian Bannen as Pte
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The Grissom Gang
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The Grissom Gang is a 1971 American period gangster film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by Leon Griffiths. The film is the adaptation of the 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase. The cast includes Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Irene Dailey, Connie Stevens, Wesley Addy, Joey Faye and Ralph Waite. In 1931, a Missourian meat heiress is kidnapped for ransom by a brutal gang, in this remake, Aldrich and Griffiths reversed this angle, the heiress merely strings him along in an attempt to escape. This version was played more for laughs, in particular the outlandishly deranged behavior of the gang. The time period and locale have also changed from 1948 New York in the first adaptation to 1931 Missouri in the remake. At the time of its release, reviewers criticized the melodramatic extremes of the script, the Grissom Gang, like so many Aldrich films. Carries lurid melodrama and violence to outrageous limits, for what seems like the purely perverse hell of it. Everybody sweats constantly, and nobody dies off-screen, always on-screen, Aldrich lets his performers, especially Miss Dailey and Wilson, behave as if they were in The Beverley Hillbillies. Robert Aldrichs new film owes something to both, everyone screams, shouts, flashes knives at each other and sweats a lot. Wilson and Kim Darby, as the girl, make stabs at more than one dimension. The film holds a 67% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film earned $340,000 in North American rentals and $250,000 in other countries. It recorded a loss of $3,670,000. It had admissions of 239,768 in France, the Grissom Gang was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on November 2,2004 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. In 2009 Empire Magazine named it #12 in a poll of the 20 Greatest Gangster Movies Youve Never Seen* List of American films of 1971 The Grissom Gang at the Internet Movie Database
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Ulzana's Raid
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Ulzanas Raid is a 1972 revisionist Western starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison and Joaquin Martinez. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp, set in 1880s Arizona, it portrays a brutal raid by Chiricahua Apaches against European settlers. The bleak and nihilistic tone showing U. S. troops chasing an elusive, following mistreatment by agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small war party. Soon news reaches the local commander, who sends riders to alert local homesteads. Both troopers are separately ambushed, one is dragged away while the other shoots the woman he is escorting. The warriors play catch with his heart, the womans husband, who stayed behind to protect his farm, is captured and tortured to death. Army scout MacIntosh is given the job of finding Ulzana with a few dozen soldiers led by an inexperienced lieutenant, the small cavalry column includes a veteran sergeant and Apache scout Ke-Ni-Tay. Ke-Ni-Tay knows Ulzana, as their wives are sisters, the cavalry troop leaves Fort Lowell and soon finds evidence of the activities of the Apache war party. The film then depicts the reality, facing a merciless enemy with far better local skills. The young officer, shocked and then hardened by the cruelty and harshness around him, struggles with his Christian conscience, MacIntosh and Ke-Ni-Tay attempt to outthink and outfight their enemies, while advising the lieutenant. DeBuin cautiously accepts their guidance though remaining mistrustful of the Apache scout, Ulzana and most of his men abandon their horses to be led circuitously by two other warriors in an attempt to tire the pursuers heavily loaded mounts. Ke-Ni-Tay notices that the trail is now of unladen horses, and Macintosh works out a plan that leads to the loss of the horses, the lieutenant prevents his men from mutilating the dead boy. The raiders attack a nearby farm, burning the homesteader to death, mcIntosh realizes that the remaining Apaches physically and psychologically need horses and will try to obtain them by raiding the troop. The woman of the farm, instead of being raped to death, has been left alive so that the cavalry will be forced to send her to the fort with an escort. By splitting the troop, Ulzana hopes to successfully attack the escort, mcIntosh suggests a decoy plan to make Ulzana falsely believe that his tactics are successful. Ulzanas warriors ambush the small detachment, obtaining all of its horses and killing the sergeant. Only the woman survives unharmed though now apparently crazed by her experiences, Ke-Ni-Tay scatters the captured horses as bugle calls from the cavalry ineptly alert the Apaches to DeBuins approach. Ulzana flees on foot as the remnants of his band are killed, Ke-Ni-Tay confronts him and shows him the Army bugle taken from the body of his son
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Emperor of the North Pole
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Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine. It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, the film is about hobos during the 1930s and is set in the U. S. state of Oregon. It is based, in part, on the books The Road by Jack London and From Coast to Coast with Jack London by A-No. -1, Shack has an arsenal of makeshift weapons, a hammer, a steel rod, and a chain. A hobo who is a hero to his peers, A-No.1, manages to hop the train with the younger, at the next stop, A-No.1 evades Shack and escapes into the hobo jungle, but Cigaret is caught. Shack threatens to kill Cigaret for riding his train for free, Shack is distracted when he learns that A-No.1 has posted a notice on the yard water tower, announcing that he will become the first hobo to ride Shacks train all the way to Portland. The other hobos agree that the first who can successfully ride Shacks train will have earned the title Emperor of the North Pole. Railroad workers place bets whether A-No. -1 can do it, spreading the news far and wide over the telegraph, Shack being widely known and he tries to rid himself of the company of Cigaret, who tags along and makes a general pest of himself. Shack succeeds in ejecting the two, but they board a fast passenger train which overtakes Shacks train and ride it to Salem, Oregon. There, they have several encounters, including one with a policeman who chases the two into the Salem hobo jungle, accusing them of stealing a turkey. They also encounter a Holiness minister holding an outdoor baptism service, the two hobos reboard Shacks train after it arrives in Salem. The story ends with a fight, involving heavy chains, planks of wood. A-No.1 ultimately has the bloodied Shack at his mercy and he then tosses Cigaret off for bragging about how they defeated Shack, telling the kid he could have become a good bum but hes got no class. Oregon, Pacific and Easterns rolling stock, including two steam locomotives, appear in the film and this was the location used by Buster Keaton for his 1927 railroad feature The General. Also featured in the film is the Dorena Reservoir, located about 10 miles east of Cottage Grove, filming finished on October 5,1972. The film was released in North America on DVD on June 5,2006 under the title Emperor of the North, the Region 2 version was available under general release in the UK from September 3,2007 under the same title. On June 16,2008, Intrada Records released the only commercial CD version of composer Frank De Vols soundtrack to the public,35 years after the films release, the CD, limited to 1,200 copies, immediately sold out. List of American films of 1973 Emperor of the North Pole at the Internet Movie Database Emperor of the North Pole at the TCM Movie Database
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The Longest Yard (1974 film)
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The Longest Yard is a 1974 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn and based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy. The film follows a workaholic resident recruiting the group of prisoners, in the two non-American remakes, the sport was changed from American football to association football. The Longest Yard featured many real-life football players, including Green Bay Packers legend Ray Nitschke, the film was shot on location at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia. It had the cooperation of then-Governor Jimmy Carter, filming had to be delayed from time to time due to prison uprisings. Paul Wrecking Crewe is a former pro football quarterback, who walks out on his wealthy girlfriend Melissa in Palm Beach. He takes her Maserati-engined Citroën SM without permission and leads police on a car chase, Crewe is arrested and sentenced to eighteen months in Citrus State Prison. The convicts disrespect Crewe because he was dismissed from the National Football League for point shaving, a sadistic warden, Rudolph Hazen, is a football fanatic who manages a semi-pro team made up of prison guards and wants Crewe to help coach the team and clinch a championship. Crewe forms a team that includes Samson, a former professional weightlifter, and Connie Shokner and he agrees to play quarterback himself. After witnessing Granny being harassed by some of the guards without breaking. Unger, one of the trustees, persistently asks Crewe if he can replace Caretaker as manager of the team. In retaliation, Unger attempts to kill Crewe by fashioning a home-made bomb from a bulb filled with a combustible fluid. However, Caretaker is killed instead, when he enters Crewes cell to retrieve some papers and Unger closes the door, locking him in. After Caretakers memorial, Crewes teammates are given a lecture from Hazen about the consequences of any attempted escape after the game. Afterward, Crewe re-energizes the team with a surprise - presenting them with professional uniforms and they charge onto the field, to the shock of the guards and Hazen, in their new uniforms. The Mean Machine starts out well, and at halftime the game is close, with the guards leading. Hazen threatens Crewe as an accessory to Caretakers murder unless Crewe loses the game to the guards by at least 21 points, Crewe reluctantly agrees, but obtains a promise from Hazen that if he cooperates, the other prisoners will be unharmed. Hazen double-crosses him, telling Captain Knauer to order his players to inflict as much physical punishment on the prisoners as possible as soon as they are ahead by 21 points. Crewe makes deliberate mistakes, putting the Mean Machine down by more than three touchdowns, 35-13, then takes out of the game
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Hustle (1975 film)
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Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime film directed by Robert Aldrich, and stars Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine. They conclude, with the support of the report, that the victim. The commanding officer, Santoro, tells them to close the case, when the detectives talk to the family about the death they omit two facts about the case. Her father, Marty Hollinger, a veteran of the Korean War, does not accept the official report. He discovers the connection to Sellers, who is also a customer of Phils girlfriend. Produced on a budget of $3.05 million, it earned $10,390,000 in US theatrical rentals, I think it was a good film, said Reynolds. At least it was a story, which I hadnt done in a long time. Catherine Deneuve and I were a case of one plus one makes three so that brought about some interest, Hustle currently holds a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. List of American films of 1975 Hustle at the Internet Movie Database
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
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Twilights Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. The film was a West German/American co-production, shot mainly at the Bavaria studios, a split screen technique is used at several points in the movie to give the audience insight into the simultaneously occurring strands of the storyline. After escaping from a prison, the rogue Air Force General Lawrence Dell and accomplices Powell, Garvas. Their goal is to gain control over its nine Titan nuclear missiles. The infiltration does not go as planned, as the impulsive Hoxey guns down an Air Force guard for trying to answer a ringing phone, Dell then shoots and kills Hoxey. Meanwhile, Dell and his two remaining men remove the security countermeasures to the control system and gain full launch capability over the complex. Just as the device is about to be set, the team accidentally trips an alarm. The furious Dell responds by initiating the launch sequence for all nine missiles, as the military and President Stevens watch the underground missile silo launch covers begin to open, they agree to call off the attempt and the launch is aborted with mere seconds to spare. During this time, the captive Air Force guards attempt to overpower Dell and his men, resulting in the death of Garvas and another guard. Eventually, the President agrees to meet the demands, which include allowing himself to be taken hostage, as the president leaves the White House, he asks the Secretary of Defense to release the document should he be killed in the process. US Air Force snipers take aim and shoot both Dell and Powell, but also accidentally shoot the President, who with his dying breath asks the Secretary of Defense if he will release the document, the Secretary cannot bring himself to answer. The film did poorly at the box office, in France it recorded admissions of 88,945. It was unsuited for videocassettes, because the effects do not work well in low resolution of that format. Seven Days in May also stars Burt Lancaster as a member of the U. S. military. Twilights Last Gleaming at the Internet Movie Database
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The Choirboys (film)
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The Choirboys is a 1977 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Christopher Knopf and Joseph Wambaugh based on Wambaughs novel of the same title. It features an ensemble cast including Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr. Randy Quaid, the film was released to theaters by Universal Pictures on December 23,1977. Nick Yanov The film attracted negative reviews and is considered by some to be Aldrichs weakest film, vincent Canbys review in The New York Times described the film as cheap and nasty as well as a stylistic and narrative mess. Wambaugh, after seeing the film, sued and got his name taken off the credits of the final print, the Choirboys at the Internet Movie Database Movie stills
