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Directed by ROBERT ALDRICH Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER KNOPF
...details right: of Depression America and a closed, grim society of busted-down mavericks, with its own codes, its own language. The trouble is that the substance of his story is worn and without surprise, another brawny contest of strength and will between two scruffy cliches. Aldrich handles the violence of the story with the gusto of a born brawler piling into another fray. His best films (Kiss Me Deadly, Attack) have always shared a quality of almost surrealistic brutality. Since much of The Emperor of the North Pole has to do with great quantities of physical pain being meted...
There are, however, somewhat discomforting jabs at allegory and significance. Marvin is the soiled knight striving after honor, Borgnine the dark primitive force he must conquer. Aldrich's idea of making his stereotypes into mythic archetypes is to pump them up with hot air. When Borgnine and Marvin finally lock in combat they seem less likely to wreak havoc than to simply deflate each other...
...Martin Schulkind and Elia Ayoub of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...
...Robert Aldrich's excellent The Flight of the Phoenix (1966), an ill-assorted group of renegades, soldiers, businessmen and misfits were marooned in the middle of a desert, their sole hope of survival being to somehow piece together their crashed plane. Steelyard Blues more or less rips off the same plot, but dispenses with suspense in favor of fey comedy and ragtag radicalism...