Movies found: 13, viewing from 1 to 13
All the Marbles (The California Dolls)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance
Year: 1981
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Chick Hearn, Richard Jaeckel, Tracy Reed, Peter Falk, Burt Young, Clyde Kusatsu, John Hancock
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Harry manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team endlessly touring America. He is also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem on the slide (particularly when Harry accepts an engagement involving mud wrestling!) but then the big grudge match beckons.
Attack
Year: 1956
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Richard Jaeckel, Holly Bane, Eddie Albert, Robert Strauss, Buddy Ebsen
Available Quality: DivX
During the closing days of WWII, a National Guard Infantry Company is assigned the task of setting up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lieutenant Costa knows that Cooney is in command only because of 'connections' he had made state-side. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooneys' ability to lead the group. When Cooney sends Costa and his men out, and refuses to re-enforce them, Costa swears revenge.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Bette Davis, Bert Freed, Victor Buono, Marjorie Bennett, Wesley Addy, Joan Crawford, Dave Willock
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, who's career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.
Vera Cruz
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Lancaster, Henry Brandon, Gary Cooper, George Macready, Jack Elam
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After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz. Ben and Erin find that the stagecoach is transporting US$ 3,000,000.00 in gold hidden below the seat and they scheme to steal it. Along their journey, betrayals and incidents happen changing their initial intentions.
The Flight of the Phoenix
Year: 1965
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Richard Attenborough, Dan Duryea
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
Autumn Leaves
Genres: Drama
Year: 1956
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Marjorie Bennett, Joan Crawford, Maxine Cooper, Ruth Donnelly, Leonard Mudie
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Millicent Wetherby is a middle-aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection. Millicent's solitary existence changes when she encounters Burt Hansen a charismatic younger man. As Burt successfully woos her and wins her hand in marriage, rumors begin to surface that Millicent's newfound beau is in fact a deranged maniac. Things grow even more complicated for Millicent when a woman claiming to be Hansen's first wife shows up. As Burt begins to lose control of himself, Millicent ponders the most radical of actions against her husband.
Emperor of the North Pole
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1973
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Simon Oakland, Matt Clark, Liam Dunn, Elisha Cook Jr.
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Those people, commonly called "hobos", are truly hated by Shack (Borgnine), a sadistical railway conductor who swore that no hobo will ride his train for free. Well, no-one but "A" Number One (Lee Marvin), who is ready to put his life at stake to become a local legend - as the first person who survived the trip on Shack's notorious train.
The Killing of Sister George
Genres: Drama
Year: 1968
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Hugh Paddick, Susannah York, Cyril Delevanti, Jack Raine, Ronald Fraser, William Beckley, Sivi Aberg
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can get is the voice of a cow in a children's tv programme. Her life begins to fall apart as Childie has an affair with a predatory tv producer.
The Last Sunset
Genres: Western
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Neville Brand, Dorothy Malone, James Westmoreland, Jack Elam, Regis Toomey, Joseph Cotten
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.
Ulzana's Raid
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Gladys Holland, Richard Bull, Bruce Davison, John Pearce, Karl Swenson
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.
Too Late the Hero
Year: 1970
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Patrick Jordan, Lance Percival, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Don Knight, Sam Kydd, Harry Andrews
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In the spring of 1942, in Southwest Pacific, Captain John G. Nolan postpones the leave of the volunteer Lieutenant, Sam Lawson. Instead he gives him an assignment in the New Hebrides with British troops, based on the required profile - fluency in Japanese. When Lt. Lawson arrives in the base, the commander explains that the island is divided between the British and Japanese sectors. Lt. Lawson asks him to go with a group of soldiers behind the Japanese lines to destroy their radio and transmit a false message to the Japanese forces. Captain Hornsby is assigned to lead the group. However, during the tense mission, he has disagreements with the...
Kiss Me Deadly
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Nick Dennis, Cloris Leachman, Jack Elam, Albert Dekker, Leigh Snowden, Paul Stewart
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike's policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story--meaning big money for him--because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage m...
The Frisco Kid
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Harrison Ford, Penny Peyser, Gene Wilder, Clyde Kusatsu, William Smith, Beege Barkette, George DiCenzo
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
It's 1850 and new rabbi Avram Belinski sets out from Philadelphia toward San Francisco. Cowpoke bandit Tom Lillard hasn't seen a rabbi before. But he knows when one needs a heap of help. And getting this tenderfoot to Frisco in one piece will cause a heap of trouble - with the law, Native Americans and a bunch of killers. Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are one feisty team as rabbi and rescuer in this rough-'n'-ready romp that rivals Wilder's earlier Blazing Saddles in Wild West hilarity. Director Robert Aldrich is a seasoned hand at blending roughhouse and laughter, as fans of his earlier The Dirty Dozen and The Longest Yard will attest. With ...