{"id":4836,"date":"2006-05-13T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2022-10-10T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:53:00","slug":"david-thomson-robert-aldrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4836","title":{"rendered":"David Thomson:  Robert Aldrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aldrich hails from Cranston, Rhode Island, by the way!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a bit from Thomson&#8217;s essay on him:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Kiss Me Deadly<\/i> is still one of the best, and most surprising American films of the 1950s, a lucid transformation of pulp Spillane into a vicious insolent allegory of violence, corruption, and forbidding futures in America.  Did overbearing producers and more restrictive censorship push Aldrich into a disciplined and even ironic evocation of brutality?  Did the cheerfulness of the fifties allow such glittering darkness to slip through?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From David Thomson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375709401\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0375709401&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=IAU4RYOUQBC6IRIG\">The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0375709401\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0375709401&#038;asins=0375709401&#038;linkId=7ZO66REJKZMUUSU6&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aldrich hails from Cranston, Rhode Island, by the way! Here is a bit from Thomson&#8217;s essay on him: &#8220;Kiss Me Deadly is still one of the best, and most surprising American films of the 1950s, a lucid transformation of pulp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4836\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[1226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179207,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/179207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}