Attack 12/15/20
KL Studio Classics
Blu-ray
Robert Aldrich promised no-holds barred rough-tough dramas, and his first two Associates & Aldrich productions certainly hit hard. This play adaptation shows its director’s strength (no-flinching full shock impact) and weakness (theatrical overplaying) in full measure, but the unrestrained performances of Jack Palance and Eddie Albert are unforgettable. The main event can’t have pleased the Pentagon: shooting one’s own officer in combat. Plus, Lee Marvin and Richard Jaeckel get in early innings for their future work in Aldrichs’s The Dirty Dozen. With William Smithers, Buddy Ebsen, Robert Strauss and a German tank that has Jack Palance’s number. On Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics.
12/15/20