Robert Aldrich: an independent career R J Thompson Uploaded 30 June 2000 5473 words Abstract Robert Aldrich was born in 1917 to a Rhode Island banking family, related on his mother's side to the Rockefellers. His privileged youth led to a blue-ribbon university at which he devoted his energies to football, and to booking and promoting dance bands. During this period, he became interested in the ...

The hunter gets captured by the game: Robert Aldrich's Hollywood Adrian Danks Uploaded 30 June 2000 5599 words Abstract This essay discusses three Robert Aldrich films that deal with the worlds of film production. The first is The big knife (USA 1955), a bitter, hyper-real tragedy set within the Hollywood studio star system, and which in 1955 was the first film to be produced under the ...