Robert Aldrich

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Kiss Me With Your Best Shot... Nuke Nightmares and Kiss Me Deadly | Ask FlickChick | 1/22/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChick.This week's DVD Tuesday pick was inspired by the recent limited re-release of a little-known indie movie called Something Wild (1961) — not to be confused with the 1986 Jonathan Demme film of the same name — starring '50s tough guy Ralph Meeker. Watching it, I couldn't help but think of Meeker's greatest role: Mickey Spillane's two-fisted private investigator Mike Hammer, in the flat-out astonishing Kiss Me Deadly (1955).Now, Spillane's name is a red flag: His novels are often dismissed as lurid, misogynistic, red-baiting, sadistic anachronisms designed to glorify white male privilege and excuse fascistic vigilantism. And that's not far off the mark, though they're also hypnotic pulp fiction. Spillane, a reactionary conservative to the core, hated Kiss Me Deadly, and not just because director Robert Aldrich and screenwriter A.I. "Buzz" Bezzerides (who died less than two weeks ago) dropped the comma from the title. That's only partly... read more
FlickChick | 5/2/2002
Question: Can you tell me when and why the movie rating system started, and which were the first movies to receive the G read more

Title	Year	Type
...All The Marbles (Director)	1981	Movie
The Frisco Kid (Director)	1979	Movie
The Choirboys (Director)	1977	Movie
Twilight's Last Gleaming (Director)	1977	Movie
Hustle (Producer)	1975	Movie