"A streak of anarchism and a distrust of authority marked much of Robert Aldrich's work, reflecting his continuing struggle to deal with the American Dream and the dreams of Hollywood. The scion of a wealthy, powerful family (his cousin Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was only the most famous of his relatives), Aldrich used his "connections" to do no more than land a low paying production clerk's job at RKO Studios in the early 40s."
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