Robert Aldrich – IDLIX

…All the Marbles

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:50:21 +0000

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women’s wrestling team to the top.

The Frisco Kid

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:45:59 +0000

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation’s new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.

Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:55:57 +0000

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President’s most trusted advisors.

The Choirboys

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:30:33 +0000

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Hustle

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:30:44 +0000

The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger’s father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines’s results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.

The Longest Yard

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:00:47 +0000

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates’ lack of self-esteem.

Emperor of the North

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:10:22 +0000

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone “ride the rails” for free.

Ulzana’s Raid

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:58:20 +0000

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

The Grissom Gang

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:11:19 +0000

The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase’s original ending.

Too Late the Hero

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:56:58 +0000

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don’t go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the ‘heroes’ are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.