Biography: Charles Aidman |
Down-to-earth American actor Charles Aidman brought his "everyman" personality to such realistic war films as Pork Chop Hill (1959) and War Hunt (1962). He has since been cast in roles of quiet unstressed authority in films like Countdown (1967),
Cast: Edward James Olmos Tyne Daly
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Drama Musical
Length: 103min
Based on a 1940s Los Angeles murder trial, this film follows the case of members of a Mexican-American gang, led by Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez), as they are tried and sentenced to San Quentin for a murder they may not have committed. ~ Iotis Erlewine,...
Cast: Charles Aidman
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 100min
This low-budget horror anthology from Oklahoma presents a quartet of eerie tales, told by a strange mortician (Ivor Francis) to a young man on the run from his lover's irate husband (John Ericson). The tales involve a crotchety old woman whose hatred...
Cast: Walter Matthau Jack Lemmon
Tags: Comedy Psychological Drama
Length: 113min
For his only directorial effort, Jack Lemmon selected his old friend and habitual co-star Walter Matthau to play the central character. Joseph P. "Kotch" Kotcher (Walter Matthau) is an irksome 72-year-old who lives with his son (Charles Aidman) and...
The Secrets of the Pirates' Inn (1969)
Cast: Ed Begley, Sr.
Tags: Adventure Mystery Family
Length: 89min
Secret of the Pirate's Inn stars Ed Begley in one of his last roles, playing a retired Irish sea captain. Three kids (Jimmy Bracken, Annie McEveety, Patrick Creamer), try to help the old salt locate the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. A reporter...
Cast: Robert Altman Robert Duvall James Caan William Conrad
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Space Adventure Drama Thriller
Length: 102min
Improvisational director Robert Altman hadn't yet found his cinematic "voice" when he helmed the conformist, stick-to-the-script Countdown. James Caan is top-billed as a scientist who is chosen over astronaut Robert Duvall for the upcoming NASA moon...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. James Garner Jerry Goldsmith Albert Salmi William Schallert
Tags: Historical Film Western Revisionist Western Docudrama
Length: 100min
John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's -Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James...
Cast: Robert Redford Gavin MacLeod Sydney Pollack
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama War Drama War
Length: 81min
Robert Redford makes his big-screen debut in this off-beat war drama that tells the tail of a new replacement on the Korean front line. It is his first time in battle, and he comes all starry eyed and eager to prove himself a glorious hero. Obviously...
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