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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (, Warner Bros.) Directed by Charles Lamont.
UNITED STATES · 1952

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (, Warner Bros.) Directed by Charles Lamont.

Robert Aldrich
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Synopsis

Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones. His most notable credits include Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (195

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